Again, when the Athenians suffered their naval defeat near Amorgus, before the tidings of the disaster could reach the city he put a garland on his head and drove through the Cerameicus, and after announcing that the Athenians were victorious, moved a sacrifice of glad tidings and made a generous distribution of meat to the people by tribes.
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
Remark :
original citation: The subject is Stratocles. He is mentioned in 11.2. thirdperson: Stratocles is not listed as a third person here because he did not actually see the outcome of the battle.
Notes :
The naval battle of Amorgus concludes the Lamian War strategically before the difinitive defeat of Athens at Crannon.
