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Where two winds blow under strong compulsion.
Blow lies upon blow, woe upon woe.
There the life-giving earth covers the son of Agamemnon.
Bring him back, and you shall be lord of Tegea.
” [5] When the Lacedaemonians heard this, they were no closer to discovery, though they looked everywhere. Finally it was found by Lichas, who was one of the Spartans who are called “doers of good deeds.”. These men are those citizens who retire from the knights, the five oldest each year. They have to spend the year in which they retire from the knights being sent here and there by the Spartan state, never resting in their efforts.
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.pos=7.6
- Harper's, Agatho ërgi
- Harper's, Metallum
- Harper's, Orestes
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AGATHOERGI
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), GEROU´SIA
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), METALLUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TE´GEA
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Smith's Bio, Lichas
- Smith's Bio, Orestes
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- Apollodorus, Epitome, Apollod. Epit. E.6
- Apollodorus, Library, Apollod. 3.6
- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 9.36
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- LSJ, ἀπέχω
- LSJ, ἀθλ-έω
- LSJ, ἔρομαι
- LSJ, ἐξεύρ-εσις
- LSJ, ἐλι_νύω
- LSJ, ἐπείρομαι
- LSJ, ἐπιτάρροθος
- LSJ, εἰς
- LSJ, φυ_σί-ζοος
- LSJ, ἱππ-εύς
- LSJ, καθυπέρτερ-ος
- LSJ, κατά
- LSJ, κατέχω
- LSJ, κεῖμαι
- LSJ, κοινός
- LSJ, κομίζω
- LSJ, λευρός
- LSJ, πῆμα
- LSJ, στα^τός
- LSJ, συνεχής
- LSJ, τύπ-ος