Passage 9.14.3
αὐτοῖς γίνεται μάντευμα τοιόνδε· Λεῦκτρά τέ μοι σκιόεντα μέλει καὶ Ἀλήσιον οὖδας, καί μοι τὼ Σκεδάσου μέλετον δυσπενθέε κούρα. ἔνθα μάχη πολύδακρυς ἐπέρχεται· οὐδέ τις αὐτήν φράσσεται ἀνθρώπων, πρὶν κούριον ἀγλαὸν ἥβην Δωριέες ὀλέσωσʼ, ὅταν αἴσιμον ἦμαρ ἐπέλθῃ. τουτάκι δʼ ἔστι Κερησσὸς ἁλώσιμος, ἄλλοτε δʼ οὐχί.
An oracle was delivered to them as follows: "Shady Leuctra concerns me, and the soil of Alesium; I care also for the ill-fated daughters of Scedasus. There a tearful battle is coming, which no mortal shall foresee until the Dorians destroy glorious youth in the flower of its prime, when the destined day arrives. Only then shall Ceressus be taken; at no other time."