Thucydides, Histories 3.96.1

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αὐλισάμενος δὲ τῶι στρατῶι ἐν τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Νεμείου τῶι ἱερῶι, ἐν ὧι Ἡσίοδος ὁ ποιητὴς λέγεται ὑπὸ τῶν ταύτηι ἀποθανεῖν, χρησθὲν αὐτῶι ἐν Νεμέαι τοῦτο παθεῖν.

He encamped with his army in the shrine of Nemean Zeus, in which the poet Hesiod is said by the locals to have died, it having been prophesied to him that he would suffer this in Nemea.



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