Note 371 — Chapter LXXII · GREECE UNDER THE LACEDÆMONIAN EMPIRE.
Reading edition
Xen. Hellen. iii, 1, 18; Diodor. xiv, 38.
The reader will remark here how Xenophon shapes the narrative in such a manner as to inculcate the pious duty in a general of obeying the warnings furnished by the sacrifice,—either for action or for inaction. I have already noticed (in my preceding chapters) how often he does this in the Anabasis.
Such an inference is never (I believe) to be found suggested in Thucydides.