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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: Agesilaus having gained Thermopylae, and passed quietly through
Phocis, as soon as he had entered Boeotia, and pitched his camp
near Chaeronea, at once met with an eclipse of the sun, and with
ill news from the navy, Pisander, the Spartan admiral, being beaten
and slain at Cnidos, by Pharnabazus and Conon. He was much moved
at it, both upon his own and the public account. Yet lest his
army, being now near engaging, should meet with any discouragement,
he ordered the messengers to give out, that the Spartans were the
conquerors, and he himself putting on a garland, solemnly
sacrificed for the good news, and sent portions of the sacrifices
to his friends.
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