On another occasion, when he was leading his troops against the enemy, there came a thunderstroke, and, when those about him inquired what he thought the god meant to signify by this, he replied, ‘That the enemy have been thunder-struck out of all sense because, when such places as those are near at hand, they pitch their camp in places such as these.’ 1
1 Cf. Polyaenus, Strategemata, ii. 3. 3.
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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