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At the time when Thebans had conquered the Spartans at Leuctra and advanced to the river Eurotas itself, one of them, boasting, said, ‘Where are the Spartans now ?’ A Spartan who had been captured by them said, ‘They are not here; otherwise you would not have come thus far.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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