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65.
Here they were seen by the Argives and their
allies, who immediately took up a strong and difficult position, and formed
in order of battle.
[2]
The Lacedaemonians at once advanced against them, and came on within a
stone's throw or javelin's cast, when one of the older men, seeing the
enemy's position to be a strong one, hallooed to Agis that he was minded to
cure one evil with another; meaning that he wished to make amends for his retreat, which had been so
much blamed, from Argos, by his present untimely precipitation.
[3]
Meanwhile Agis, whether in consequence of this halloo or of some sudden new
idea of his own, quickly led back his army without engaging,
[4]
and entering the Tegean territory, began to turn off into that of Mantinea
the water about which the Mantineans and Tegeans are always fighting, on
account of the extensive damage it does to whichever of the two countries if
falls into.
[5]
His object in this was to make the Argives and their allies come down from
the hill, to resist the diversion of the water, as they would be sure to do
when they knew of it, and thus to fight the battle in the plain.
He accordingly stayed that day where he was, engaged in turning off the
water.
The Argives and their allies were at first amazed at the sudden retreat of
the enemy after advancing so near, and did not know what to make of it; but when he had gone away and disappeared, without their having stirred to
pursue him, they began anew to find fault with their generals, who had not
only let the Lacedaemonians get off before, when they were so happily
intercepted before Argos, but who now again allowed them to run away,
without any one pursuing them, and to escape at their leisure while the
Argive army was leisurely betrayed.
[6]
The generals, half-stunned for the moment, afterwards led them down from
the hill, and went forward and encamped in the plain, with the intention of
attacking the enemy.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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