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In order to encourage the Thebans to attack the Lacedaemonians, Epameinondas brought a large snake in front of the troops and crushed its head. Then he explained them that as the body of the snake was useless without its head, so would the body of the Lacedaemonian allies be useless without their leaders. The Thebans were indeed persuaded by the force of the argument and they eagerly attacked the Lacedaemonian phalanx. When they indeed drove it away, the allies fled too.
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