Life of Lysander, 1.29.5

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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5For Lysander, as it appears, had received an oracle running thus:—

“Be on thy guard, I bid thee, against a sounding Hoplites,

And an earth born dragon craftily coming behind thee.”

Some, however, say that the Hoplites does not flow before Haliartus, but is a winter torrent near Coroneia, which joins the Philarus and then flows past that city; in former times it was called Hoplias, but now Isomantus.

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