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30.
Meanwhile the Thebans heard of it and marched
to the rescue, and overtaking the Thracians before they had gone far,
recovered the plunder and drove them in panic to the Euripus and the sea,
where the vessels which brought them were lying.
[2]
The greatest slaughter took place while they were embarking, as they did
not know how to swim, and those in the vessels on seeing what was going on
on shore moored them out of bowshot: in the rest of the retreat the
Thracians made a very respectable defence against the Theban horse, by which
they were first attacked, dashing out and closing their ranks according to
the tactics of their country, and lost only a few men in that part of the
affair.
A good number who were after plunder were actually caught in the town and
put to death.
[3]
Altogether the Thracians had two hundred and fifty killed out of thirteen
hundred, the Thebans and the rest who came to the rescue about twenty,
troopers and heavy infantry, with Scirphondas, one of the Boetarchs.
The Mycalessians lost a large proportion of their population.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.78
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