HKB
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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · oracle interpretation · omens, portents, and signs · local burial tradition · hoplites watercourse · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · curiosity (1) · wonder (1)
“Lysander, it appears, having received an oracle, as follows: -- Sounding Hoplites see thou bear in mind, And the earthborn dragon following behind.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · observation
Spartan elders refuse to retrieve Lysander’s body without fighting, but Pausanias secures a truce, buries Lysander near the Boeotian frontier; local traditions explain the place-name Hoplites and associated prophecies.
Pausanias as he was on the way from Plataea to Thespiae, and having set his army in order he came to Haliartus; Thrasybulus, also, came from Thebes, leading the Athenians. Pausanias proposing to request the bodies of the dead under truce, the elders of the Spartans took it ill, and were angry among themselves, and coming to the king, declared that Lysander should not be taken away upon any conditions; if they fought…