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In like manner the Spartans, as they were in great need of
Tisamenus, yielded everything: and Tisamenus the Elean, having in
this way become a Spartan citizen, afterwards, in the capacity of
soothsayer, helped the Spartans to gain five very glorious combats.
He and his brother were the only men whom the Spartans ever admitted
to citizenship. The five combats were these following: The first was
the combat at Plataea; the second, that near Tegea, against the
Tegeans and the Argives; the third, that at Dipaeeis, against all
the Arcadians excepting those of Mantinea; the fourth, that at the
Isthmus, against the Messenians; and the fifth, that at Tanagra,
against the Athenians and the Argives. The battle here fought was
the last of all the five.
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