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10.
After this brief speech Brasidas himself
prepared for the sally, and placed the rest with Clearidas at the Thracian
gates to support him as had been agreed.
[2]
Meanwhile he had been seen coming down from Cerdylium and then in the city,
which is overlooked from the outside, sacrificing near the temple of Athena; in short, all his movements had been observed, and word was brought to
Cleon, who had at the moment gone on to look about him, that the whole of
the enemy's force could be seen in the town, and that the feet of horses and
men in great numbers were visible under the gates, as if a sally were
intended.
[3]
Upon hearing this he went up to look, and having done so, being unwilling
to venture upon the decisive step of a battle before his reinforcements came
up, and fancying that he would have time to retire, bid the retreat be
sounded and sent orders to the men to effect it by moving on the left wing
in the direction of Eion, which was indeed the only way practicable.
[4]
This however not being quick enough for him, he joined the retreat in
person and made the right wing wheel round, thus turning its unarmed side to
the enemy.
[5]
It was then that Brasidas seeing the Athenian force in motion and his
opportunity come, said to the men with him and the rest, ‘Those
fellows will never stand before us, one can see that by the way their spears
and heads are going.
Troops which do as they do seldom stand a charge.
Quick, some one, and open the gates I spoke of, and let us be out and at
them with no fears for the result.’
[6]
Accordingly issuing out by the palisade gate and by the first in the long
wall then existing, he ran at the top of his speed along the straight road,
where the trophy now stands as you go by the steepest part of the hill, and
fell upon and routed the center of the Athenians, panic-stricken by their
own disorder and astounded at his audacity.
[7]
At the same moment Clearidas in execution of his orders issued out from the
Thracian gates to support him, and also attacked the enemy.
[8]
The result was that the Athenians, suddenly and unexpectedly attacked on
both sides, fell into confusion; and their left towards Eion, which had already got on some distance, at
once broke and fled.
Just as it was in full retreat and Brasidas was passing on to attack the
right, he received a wound; but his fall was not perceived by the Athenians, as he was taken up by
those near him and carried off the field.
[9]
The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the
first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain
by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill
twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give
way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the Myrcinian
and Chalcidian horse and the targeteers.
[10]
Thus the Athenian army was all now in flight; and such as escaped being killed in the battle by the Chalcidian horse and
the targeteers, dispersed among the hills, and with difficulty made their
way to Eion.
[11]
The men who had taken up and rescued Brasidas, brought him into the town
with the breath still in him: he lived to hear of the victory of his troops,
and not long after expired.
[12]
The rest of the army returning with Clearidas from the pursuit stripped the
dead and set up a trophy.
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- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.10
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXXVI
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XXIV
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XXXVIII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXVII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XCIV
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.86
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TROPAEUM
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TUBA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), EILE´SIUM
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
- Smith's Bio, Clea'ridas
- Smith's Bio, Cleon
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- LSJ, Θρᾴκ-ιος
- LSJ, δῆλος
- LSJ, ἀποφέρω
- LSJ, ἀποκομ-ίζω
- LSJ, ἀπορρήγνυ_μι
- LSJ, δια^γων-ίζομαι
- LSJ, διαλείπω
- LSJ, ἐπιφαν-ής
- LSJ, ἐπιπάρειμι
- LSJ, φθάνω
- LSJ, καρτερός
- LSJ, πρίν
- LSJ, σημαίνω
- LSJ, σταύρ-ωμα
- LSJ, σχολή
- LSJ, τρέπω
- LSJ, ὑπό
- LSJ, ὑποφαίνω
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