The Histories · 5.56

Now the vision of a dream which Hipparchos had was this:--in the night before the Panathenaia it seemed to Hipparchos that a man came and stood by him, tall and of fair form, and riddling spoke to him these verses: "With enduring soul as a lion endure unendurable evil: No one of men who doth wrong shall escape from the judgment appointed." These verses, as soon as it was day, he publicly communicated to the interpreters of dreams; but afterwards he put away thought of the vision and began to take part in that procession during which he lost his life.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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