16.4
and behind the temple two springs burst forth with a wonderful flow of sweet, copious, and cool water. One of these we call Palm, the other Olive to the present day, for it was not between two trees,As in the Delian story of the birth of Apollo and Artemis. but between two fountains, that the goddess Leto was delivered of her children. Moreover, the PtoümA mountain at the south-eastern side of Lake Copaïs, on which was a celebrated sanctuary of Apollo. is near, from which, it is said, a boar suddenly came forth and frightened the goddess, and in like manner the stories of the PythonA dragon and a giant, who were slain by Apollo and Artemis. and of TityusA dragon and a giant, who were slain by Apollo and Artemis. are associated with the birth of Apollo in this locality.
16.5
Most of the proofs, however, I shall pass over; for my native tradition removes this god from among those deities who were changed from mortals into immortals, like Heracles and Dionysus, whose virtues enabled them to cast off mortality and suffering; but he is one of those deities who are unbegotten and eternal, if we may judge by what the most ancient and wisest men have said on such matters.
17.1
So, then, as the Thebans entered the district of Tegyra on their way back from Orchomenus, the Lacedaemonians also entered it at the same time, returning in the opposite direction from Locris, and met them. As soon as they were seen marching through the narrow pass, some one ran up to Pelopidas and said: We have fallen into our enemies’ hands! Why any more, said he, than they into ours?
