sparta

hear your fate, O dwellers in Sparta of the wide spaces; either your famed, great town must be sacked by perseus' sons. Or if that be not the whole land of lacedaemon shall mourn the death of a king of the house of Heracles, for not the strength of lions or of bulls shall hold him strength against strength; for he has the power of Zeus, and will not be checked till one of these two he has consumed.

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