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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: by the Larisus; but the army had hardly set foot on the enemy's soil
and the work of devastation begun, when an earthquake took place, and
Agis, taking this as a sign from Heaven, marched back again out of the
country and disbanded his army. Thereat the men of Elis were much more
emboldened, and sent embassies to various cities which they knew to be
hostile to the Lacedaemonians.
[17] Lit. "perioecid."
[18] From the north. The Larisus is the frontier stream between Achaia
and Elis. See Strabo, viii. 387.
The year had not completed its revolution[19] ere the ephors again
called out the ban against Elis, and the invading host of Agis was
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