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LIBRI XV. XLV

Cap. summam Epaminondae permittunt. Prodigia mala Epaminondae iter ingredienti obveniunt. His non deterritus fauces ad Coroneam occupat. 53. Cleombrotus exercitum per Phocidem Leuctra ducit. Boeotarchae aliquamdiu haesitantes pugnam committere decernunt. Militum animos Epaminondas fictis rumoribus confirmat. 54. Faustis quibusdam oraculis Thebani ad pugnandum inflammantur. Iasone Thessalo auctore indutiae fiunt, sed Lacedaemonii novis copiis aucti aciem instruunt. 55. Lacedaemoniorum et Thebanorum acies describitur. Victoria dubia, quoad rex Cleombrotus occiditur. 56. Lacedaemonii ad postremum terga vertunt. Epaminondae maxime opera Thebani ad Leuctra clarissimam victoriam pariunt. Ol. 102, 3 : 370 a. Chr. 57. Thebani Orchomenios Phocenses Aetolos Locros in societatem recipiunt. Iason Pheraeorum tyrannus Locridem petit, Heracleam vastat, Perrhaebiam ingreditur. Argis seditio, quae dicitur scytalismos, oritur. 58. Argis primo mille (et ducenti) optimates trucidantur, deinde ipsi populares, qui optimates accusaverant. Turbae et caedes inter Arcades excitantur a Lycomede Tegeata. 59. Thessali auctore Iasone Pheraeo principatum Graeciae appetunt. 60. Hoc anno mortem obeunt tres reges, Amyntas Macedo, Agesipolis Lacedaemonius, Iason Pheraeus. Duris Samius historiae Graecae ab hoc anno initium fecit. Ol. 102, 4 : 369 a. Chr. 61. Iasoni succedit Polydorus, huic paulo post interempto Alexander; contra eum Aleuadae advocant regem Macedonum. 62. Lacedaemonii ab Arcadibus proelio funduntur. Arcades Thebanos in Peloponnesum arcessunt. 63. Lacedaemonii Atheniensium auxilium implorant: qui

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BOOK XV. XLV

Ch. they entrust the supreme command to Epaminondas. Ill omens befall Epaminondas as he begins his march. Undeterred by these, he occupies the passes near Coronea. 53. Cleombrotus leads his army through Phocis to Leuctra. The Boeotarchs, hesitating for some time, decide to join battle. Epaminondas strengthens the soldiers' spirits with fabricated rumors. 54. Inflamed by certain favorable oracles, the Thebans are roused to fight. On the advice of Jason of Thessaly, a truce is made, but the Lacedaemonians, reinforced with new troops, draw up their battle line. 55. The battle lines of the Lacedaemonians and Thebans are described. The victory is doubtful, until King Cleombrotus is slain. 56. The Lacedaemonians finally turn their backs. The Thebans, chiefly by the efforts of Epaminondas, achieve a most glorious victory at Leuctra. Ol. 102, 3 : 370 BC 57. The Thebans receive the Orchomenians, Phocians, Aetolians, and Locrians into alliance. Jason, tyrant of Pherae, heads for Locris, devastates Heraclea, and enters Perrhaebia. At Argos, a sedition arises which is called scytalism. 58. At Argos, first one thousand two hundred of the aristocrats are slaughtered, then the common people themselves who had accused the aristocrats. Tumults and slaughter are stirred up among the Arcadians by Lycomedes of Tegea. 59. The Thessalians, on the advice of Jason of Pherae, aspire to the leadership of Greece. 60. In this year, three kings meet their death: Amyntas the Macedonian, Agesipolis the Lacedaemonian, and Jason of Pherae. Douris of Samos began his history of Greece from this year. Ol. 102, 4 : 369 BC 61. Polydorus succeeds Jason; a little later, when he was killed, Alexander succeeds him; against him the Aleuadae summon the king of the Macedonians. 62. The Lacedaemonians are routed in battle by the Arcadians. The Arcadians summon the Thebans into the Peloponnese. 63. The Lacedaemonians implore the aid of the Athenians: they,