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Thus, or near thus, went the battle, the greatest that had been of a long time between Grecians and Grecians, and of two the most famous cities.
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The Lacedaemonians, laying together the arms of their slain enemies, presently erected a trophy and rifled their dead bodies.
Their own dead they took up and carried them to Tegea, where they were also buried, and delivered to the enemy theirs under truce.
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Of the Argives, and Orneates, and Cleonaeans were slain seven hundred;
of the Mantineans, two hundred;
and of the Athenians with the Aeginetae, likewise two hundred, and both the captains.
The confederates of the Lacedaemonians were never pressed, and therefore their loss was not worth mentioning;
and of the Lacedaemonians themselves, it is hard to know the certainty;
but it is said there were slain three hundred.
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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