Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 3.8.9

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[9] Yet further fuel for the controversy between Agesilaos and Leotykhides was supplied by the oracle that was delivered at Delphi to this effect:

“Sparta beware! though haughty, pay heed to the warning I give thee.
Never let thy sound limbs give birth to a kingdom that lame is.
Too long then shalt thou lie in the clutches of desperate hardships;
Turmoil of war shall arise, o’erwhelming men in its billows.”

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy. . .

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Editions (1)

Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 3.8.9 focus

[9] τῷ δὲ Ἀγησιλάῳ καὶ Λεωτυχίδῃ παρέσχεν ἐς πλέον τὸ μάντευμα ἀντιλογίαν τὸ ἐκ Δελφῶν, γεγονὸς μὲν ἐκεῖ, ἔχον δὲ οὕτω·

φράζεο δή, Σπάρτη, καίπερ μεγάλαυχος ἐοῦσα,

μὴ σέθεν ἀρτίποδος βλάστῃ χωλὴ βασιλεία.

δηρὸν γὰρ μόχθοι σε κατασχήσουσιν ἄελπτοι

φθερσιβρότου τʼ ἐπὶ κῦμα κυκωόμενον πολέμοιο.

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Description of Greece Perseus (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.) — 3.8.9 focus

[9] Yet further fuel for the controversy between Agesilaus and Leotychides was supplied by the oracle that was delivered at Delphi to this effect:—

Sparta beware! though haughty, pay heed to the warning I give thee.

Never let thy sound limbs give birth to a kingdom that lame is.

Too long then shalt thou lie in the clutches of desperate hardships;

Turmoil of war shall arise, o'erwhelming men in its billows.

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