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[4] Now the older people amongst those who heard the herald considered it an omen for the future; but the younger folk kept quiet so as not to appear through cowardice to hold Epameinondas back from the expedition. But Epameinondas replied to those who told him that he must observe the omens:“ One only omen is best, to fight for the land that is ours.
Hom. Il. 12.243

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