bers below, see Grote, "H. G." ix.
422, note 1.

And here I may state the numbers on either side. The Lacedaemonian
heavy-armed infantry levies amounted to six thousand men. Of Eleians,
Triphylians, Acroreians, and Lasionians, there must have been nearly
three thousand, with fifteen hundred Sicyonians, while Epidaurus,
Troezen, Hermione, and Halieis (10) contributed at least another three
thousand. To these heavy infantry troops must be added six hundred
Lacedaemonian cavalry, a body of Cretan archers about three hundred
strong, besides another force of slingers, at least four hundred in
all, consisting of Marganians, Letrinians, and Amphidolians. The men
of Phlius were not represented. Their plea was they were keeping "holy
truce." That was the total of the forces on the Lacedaemonian side.
There was collected on the enemy's side six thousand Athenian heavy
infantry, with about, as was stated, seven thousand Argives, and in the
absence of the men of Orchomenus something like five thousand Boeotians.
There were besides three thousand Corinthians, and again from the whole
of Euboea at least three thousand. These formed the heavy infantry.
Of cavalry the Boeotians, again in the absence of the Orchomenians,
furnished eight hundred, the Athenians (11) six hundred, the Chalcidians
of Euboea one hundred, the Opuntian Locrians (12) fifty. Their light
troops, including those of the Corinthians, were more numerous, as the
Ozolian Locrians, the Melians, and Arcarnanians (13) helped to swell
their numbers.

(10) Halieis, a seafaring people (Strabo, viii. 373) and town on the
coast of Hermionis; Herod. vii. 137; Thuc. i. 105, ii. 56, iv. 45;
Diod. xi. 78; "Hell." VI. ii. 3.

(11) For a treaty between Athens and Eretria, B.C. 395, see Hicks, 66;
and below, "Hell." IV. iii. 15; Hicks, 68, 69; Diod. xiv. 82.

(12) See above, "Hell." III. v. 3.

(13) See below, "Hell." IV. vi. 1; ib. vii. 1; VI. v. 23.

Such was the strength of the two armies. The Boeotians, as long as they
occupied the left wing, showed no anxiety to join battle, but after a
rearrangement which gave them the right, placing the Athenians opposite
the Lacedaemonians, and themselves opposite the Achaeans, at once, we
are told, (14) the victims proved favourable, and the order was passed
along the lines to prepare for immediate action. The Boeotians, in the
first place, abandoning the rule of sixteen deep, chose to give their
division the fulles