The Histories · 9.36
This Tisamenos was acting now as diviner for the Hellenes in the Plataian land, being brought by the Spartans. Now to the Hellenes the sacrifices were of good omen if they defended themselves only, but not if they crossed the Asopos and began a battle;.Read in context ›
Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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