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In 480 BC Persian [[King Xerxes]] was planning to carry out his father's intentions to conquer [[Greece]]. Now at this time there was a Spartan oracle which said,
In 480 BC Persian [[King Xerxes]] was planning to carry out his father's intentions to conquer [[Greece]]. Now at this time there was a Spartan oracle which said,
''Hear your fate, O dwellers in [[Sparta]]of the wide spaces;
''Hear your fate, O dwellers in [[Sparta]] of the wide spaces;
Either your famed great town must be sacked by Perseus' sons,
Either your famed great town must be sacked by Perseus' sons,
Or, if that be not, the whole land of Lacedaemon
Or, if that be not, the whole land of Lacedaemon