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procure favorable omens, and so commanded the Lace- da?monians, setting down their shields at their feet to abide quietly and attend his directions, making no resist- ance to any of their enemies. And, he sacrificing again a second time, the horse charged, and some of the Lace- daemonians were wounded. At this time, also, CaUicrates, who, we are told, was the most comely man in the army, being .shot with an arrow and upon the point of expiring, said, that he lamented not his death (for he came from home to lay down his life in the defence of Greece) but that he died without action. The case was indeed hard, and the forbearance of the men wonderful ; for they let the enemy charge without repelling them ; and, expecting their proper opportunity from the gods and their general, suffered themselves to be wounded and slain in their ranks. And some say, that while Pausanias was at sacri- fice and prayers, some space out of the battle-array, cer- tain Lydians, faUing suddenly upon him, plundered and scattered the sacrifice : and that Pausanias and his com- pany, having no amis, beat them with staves and whips ; and that in imitation of this attack, the whipping the boys about the altar, and after it the Lydian procession, are to this day practised in Sparta. Pausanias, therefore, being troubled at the.se things, while the priest went on offering one sacrifice after another, turns himself towards the temple ^vith tears in his eyes, and, lifting up his hands to heaven, besought Juno of Cithferon, and the other tutelar gods of the Pla- ta?ans, if it were not in the fates for the Greeks to obtain the A^ctory, that they might not perish, without perform- ing some remarkable thing, and by their actions demon- strating to their enemies, that they waged war with men of courage, and soldiers. While Paasanias was thus in the act of supplication, the. sacrifices appeared propitiou.s and the soothsayers foretold victory. The word being