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The Spartans had
been deprived of their strength by the battle of Leuctra1, and
the Eurotas, which had never yet heard an enemy trumpet, saw Boeotians camping
in Laconia. For the Theban had cut off
the bloom of Sparta, enveloping in
ashes the flower of her young men, the established boundaries of Laconia. Our own resources were spent with war
and the hopes of the survivors were oppressed by the fate of the dead.
1 Cf. Din. 1.73, note.
Demades. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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