Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Alcibiades Ii, 148d

nan It rests with the gods, I conceive, to give us either what we may pray for or the reverse. And I would like to give you an account of something else, which I once heard from some of my seniors. A quarrel having arisen between the Athenians and the Spartans, it befell our city to be always unsuccessful in every battle by land and sea, and she could never win a victory. So the Athenians, in their annoyance at this result, and at a loss for some means of finding a deliverance from the trouble they were in

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ammon	Mikalson (2010) 49
dedications	Mikalson (2010) 49
festivals,in athens	Mikalson (2010) 49
good speech,in prayer'	Mikalson (2010) 49
good speech	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,and good speech	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,and justice	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,objects of	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,proper	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,pythagoras on	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,to zeus	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers	Mikalson (2010) 49
pythagoras and pythagoreans,on prayer	Mikalson (2010) 49
spartans,prayers of	Mikalson (2010) 49
spartans	Mikalson (2010) 49
zeus	Mikalson (2010) 49