platam

Updated: May 21, 2025

And that same night I overheard Dorcis say to my mother, 'If I could succeed Pausanias, and conclude this war, I should be consoled for not having commanded at Platam. And my mother, who is proud for her husband's glory, as a woman should be, said, 'Why not strain every nerve as for a crown in Olympia? Periclides will aid thee thou wilt win." Lysander.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Pausanias, the Spartan: The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance