Note 28 — Chapter XIX · THERMOPYLÆ
Reading edition
[This was continued for seven days at Sparta. Various reasons are assigned for its institution; Theocritus says it commemorated the cessation of a pestilence.c]
Reading edition
[This was continued for seven days at Sparta. Various reasons are assigned for its institution; Theocritus says it commemorated the cessation of a pestilence.c]