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[–] falcunculus@jlai.lu 9 points 5 months ago

It was the other way around, Philip was trying to conquer Greece and he figured sending a threatening letter to Sparta might be enough, since at that point they were about powerless.

So the invasion was always planned and the courtesy of the answer didn't matter.