Chabrias, in the vicinity of Corinth, having struck down some few Thebans whose eagerness led them to carry the fighting to the foot of the walls, set up a trophy. 1 Epameinondas, ridiculing it, said, ‘In that place should stand, not a trophy, but a Hecate’; for it was in keeping to set up an image of Hecate, as they used to do, at the meeting of three ways in front of the gates.
1 Cf. Diodorus, xv. 69.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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