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The Tearless Battle

Volume II · No. 205
“What battle was called the "Tearless Battle"?”

In the battle fought between the Lacedemonians, or Spartans, and the combined armies of the Arcadians and Argives, in 367 B. C., not one Spartan fell. Plutarch tells us that the Spartans called it, therefore, "The Tearless battle."

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