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Plutarch, Demosthenes, 19.1-19.2
τύχη δέ τις ἔοικε δαιμόνιος ἐν περιφορὰ πραγμάτων, εἰς ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ συμπεραίνουσα τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ἐναντιοῦσθαι τοῖς πραττομένοις, καὶ πολλὰ σημεῖα τοῦ μέλλοντος ἀναφαίνειν, ἐν οἷς ἥ τε Πυθία δεινὰ προὔφαινε μαντεύματα, καὶ χρησμὸς ᾔδετο παλαιὸς ἐκ τῶν Σιβυλλείων τῆς ἐπὶ Θερμώδοντι μάχης ἀπάνευθε γενοίμην, αἰετὸς ἐν νεφέεσσι καὶ ἠέρι θηήσασθαι. κλαίει ὁ νικηθείς, ὁ δὲ νικήσας ἀπόλωλε.  But it would seem that some divinely ordered fortune in the revolution of affairs, which was putting an end at this time to the freedom of the Greeks, opposed their efforts, and showed forth many signs of what was to come. Among these were the dire prophecies which the Pythian priestess made known, and an ancient oracle which was recited from the Sibylline books:— "From the battle on Thermodon may I be far removed, To behold it like an eagle in clouds and upper air. Tears are for the conquered there, and for the conqueror, death.
τὸν δὲ Θερμώδοντα φασιν εἶναι παρʼ ἡμῖν ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ ποτάμιον μικρὸν εἰς τὸν Κηφισὸν ἐμβάλλον. ἡμεῖς δὲ νῦν μὲν οὐδὲν οὕτω τῶν ῥευμάτων ἴσμεν ὀνομαζόμενον, εἰκάζομεν δὲ τὸν καλούμενον Αἵμονα Θερμώδοντα λέγεσθαι τότε· καὶ γὰρ παραρρεῖ παρὰ τὸ Ἡράκλειον, ὅπου κατεστρατοπέδευον οἱ Ἕλληνες· καὶ τεκμαιρόμεθα τῆς μάχης γενομένης αἵματος ἐμπλησθέντα καὶ νεκρῶν τὸν ποταμὸν ταύτην διαλλάξαι τὴν προσηγορίαν.  Now, the Thermodon, they say, is in my native territory, in Chaeroneia, being a little river which empties into the Cephisus. But I know of no river bearing this name at the present time; I conjecture, however, that the stream now called Haemon then bore the name of Thermodon. For it flows past the Heracleum, where the Greeks had their camp; and I judge that after the battle the river was filled with blood and corpses and therefore received its present name in exchange.

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1. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 9.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 9.3. In consequence of these exploits, then, as was natural, Philip was excessively fond of his son, so that he even rejoiced to hear the Macedonians call Alexander their king, but Philip their general. However, the disorders in his household, due to the fact that his marriages and amours carried into the kingdom the infection, as it were, which reigned in the women’s apartments, produced many grounds of offence and great quarrels between father and son, and these the bad temper of Olympias, who was a jealous and sullen woman, made still greater, since she spurred Alexander on.
2. Plutarch, Camillus, 19.4-19.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 19.4. Further, the month of Thargelion has clearly been a disastrous one for the Barbarians, for in that month the generals of the King were conquered by Alexander at the Granicus, and on the twenty-fourth of the month the Carthaginians were worsted by Timoleon off Sicily. On this day, too, of Thargelion, it appears that Ilium was taken, as Ephorus, Callisthenes, Damastes, and Phylarchus have stated. 19.5. Contrary-wise, the month of Metageitnion (which the Boeotians call Panemus) has not been favourable to the Greeks. On the seventh of this month they were worsted by Antipater in the battle of Crannon, and utterly undone; before this they had fought Philip unsuccessfully at Chaeroneia on that day of the month; and in the same year, and on the same day of Metageitnion, Archidamus and his army, who had crossed into Italy, were cut to pieces by the Barbarians there.
3. Plutarch, Cimon, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 412c. and in the Peloponnesian War, when the people of Delos had been driven out of their island, an oracle, it is said, was brought to them from Delphi directing them to find the place where Apollo was born, and to perform certain sacrifices there. While they were wondering and questioning the mere possibility that the god had been born, not in their island, but somewhere else, the prophetic priestess told them in another oracle that a crow would show them the spot. So they went away and, when they reached Chaeroneia, they heard the woman who kept their inn conversing about the oracle with some strangers who were on their way to Tegyrae. The strangers, as they were leaving, bade good-bye to the woman and called her by her name, which actually was 'Crow.'
5. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 19.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Plutarch, Table Talk, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Plutarch, Sulla, 17.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Plutarch, Theseus, 17.6, 27.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alexander iii of macedon	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
alexander the great	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 198
amazon	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
anecdote	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
athens, athenians	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
chaeronea, chaeronea, battle of	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22, 27
chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22, 27; Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 198
daulis	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
delphi	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
demosthenes, orator	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
duris, of samos	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
freedom	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
gaul, gallic	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
glory	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
leucothea, cult of	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 198
macedon, macedonian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
matuta, shrine of	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 198
megara, megarian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
myth, mythical, mythological	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
oracle	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
philip ii	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22, 27
phocion	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
rome	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 198
soclarus, l. mestrius	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
sulla'	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 198
theagenes, theban	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
thebes	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
thermodon, river	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
theseus	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 22
timocleia	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27
trajan	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 27