In The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of responses, Joseph Eddy Fontenrose says that the 481/480 B.C. oracle is not genuine, but is said to have been: "People of Sparta, either your city is destroyed by the Persians or it is not, and Lakedaimon will mourn a dead king of the Heraklid line. For the might of bulls and lions will not stay the enemy in battle; he has Zeus' might. And I say that he will not stop until he has destroyed one of these two.