The seer tried to dissuade him from leading his army against the city of the Argives, for the return, he said, would be made in disgrace. But when Cleomenes had advanced near the city, and saw the gates closed and the women upon the walls, he said, ‘Does it seem to you that the return from here can be made in disgrace, where, since the men are dead, the women have barred the gates ?’