s slain, and the rest fled to
the mountains, the Thebans hotly pursuing. But when the pursuit had led
them to some considerable height, and they were fairly environed and
hemmed in by difficult ground and narrow space, then the heavy infantry
turned to bay, and greeted them with a shower of darts and missiles.
First two or three men dropped who had been foremost of the pursuers,
and then upon the rest they poured volleys of stones down the
precipitous incline, and pressed on their late pursuers with much zeal,
until the Thebans turned tail and quitted the deadly slope, leaving
behind them more than a couple of hundred corpses.

(22) See Plut. "Lys." xxviii. (Clough, iii. 137).

On this day, thereafter, the hearts of the Thebans failed them as they
counted their losses and found them equal to their gains; but the next
day they discovered that during the night the Phocians and the rest of
them had made off to their several homes, whereupon they fell to pluming
themselves highly on their achievement. But presently Pausanias appeared
at the head of the Lacedaemonian army, and once more their dangers
seemed to thicken round them. Deep, we are told, was the silence and
abasement which reigned in their host. It was not until the third day,
when the Athenians arrived (23) and were duely drawn up beside them,
whilst Pausanias neither attacked nor offered battle, that at length the
confidence of the Thebans took a larger range. Pausanias, on his side,
having summoned his generals and commanders of fifties, (24) deliberated
whether to give battle or to content himself with picking up the bodies
of Lysander and those who fell with him, under cover of a truce.

(23) See Dem. "On the Crown," 258.

(24) Lit. "polemarchs and penteconters"--"colonels and lieutenants."
See "Pol. Lac." xi.

The considerations which weighed upon the minds of Pausanias and
the other high officers of the Lacedaemonians seem to have been that
Lysander was dead and his defeated army in retreat; while, as far as
they themselves were concerned, the Corinthian contingent was absolutely
wanting, and the zeal of the troops there present at the lowest ebb.
They further reasoned that the enemy's cavalry was numerous and theirs
the reverse; whilst, weightiest of all, there lay the dead right under
the walls, so that if they had been ever so much stronger it would have
been no easy task to pick up the bodies within range of the towers of
Haliartus. On all t