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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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During their term of office, after the Lacedaemonians had
held the supremacy in Greece for almost five hundred years, a divine portent foretold the loss
of their empire; for there was seen in the heavens during the course of many nights a great
blazing torch which was named from its shape a "flaming beam,"1 and a little later, to
the surprise of all, the Spartans were defeated in a great battle and irretrievably lost their
supremacy.
1 Seneca, Q .N. 7.5: "talem effigiem ignis longi fuisse Callisthenes tradit, antequam Burin et Helicen mare absconderet. Aristoteles ait non trabem illam sed cometen fuisse." Translation by John Clarke: "Callisthenes puts it on record that a similar appearance of a trail of fire was observed before the sea swallowed up Buris and Helice. Aristotle says it was not a 'beam,' but a comet." On the basis of this passage of Diodorus and the passage of Seneca it would seem that ὁδός in Aristot. Meteor. 343b 23 (διὸ καὶ ἐκλήθη ὁδός, ed. by F. H. Fobes) should read δοκός (see Wesseling's note). Aristotle dates the occurrence in 373/2 (Aristot. Meteor. 343b 19).
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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