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Hear your fate, O dwellers in Sparta of the wide spaces;

Either your famed, great town must be sacked by Perseus' sons,

Or, if that be not, the whole land of Lacedaemon

Shall mourn in the death of a king of the house of Heracles,

For not the strength if lions or of bulls shall hold him,

Strength againsh strength; for he has the power of Zeus,

And will not be checked till one of these two he has consumed.

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Q: What is the oracle of Delphi's prophecy to Leonidas of Sparta?
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