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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · serpent omen · omens, portents, and signs · messengers to allies · lydian military response · horse behavior in omens · diplomacy and embassies
Usually: narrative (1) · the test or trial (1) · curiosity (1)
At Sardis Croesus sees a serpent omen in the suburb, consults Telmessians about what it means, continues preparing for alliance gathering, and then faces Cyrus’s rapid advance into Lydia.
assemble at Sardis by the fifth month, but these he was sending out to ask them to come to his assistance as quickly as possible, because Croesus was being besieged. 82. So then in sending to his other allies he sent also to Lacedemon. But these too, the Spartans I mean, had themselves at this very time (for so it had fallen out) a quarrel in hand with the Argives about the district called Thyrea. For this Thyrea, b…