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[20] For at the time when he gave them the last order to make ready, saying that there would be a battle, the horsemen eagerly whitened their helmets at his command, the hoplites of the Arcadians painted clubs1 upon their shields, as though they were Thebans, and all alike sharpened their spears and daggers and burnished their shields.

1 The Theban device.

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