ith some of the cavalry, scaled
up and speedily cut down the rearmost ranks of the Thebans as they
galloped past into the city. When, however, they were close under
cover of their walls the Thebans turned, and the Sciritae seeing them
retreated at more than a steady walking pace. No one, it is true, was
slain; but the Thebans all the same set up a trophy in record of
the incident at the point where the scaling party had been forced to
retreat.

(24) See for affairs of Delos, never actually named by Xenophon,
between B.C. 377 and 374, the Sandwich Marble in Trinity College,
Cambridge; Boeckh, "C. I. G" 158, and "P. E. A." ii. p. 78 foll.;
Hicks, 82.

(25) Erythrae (Redlands) stands between Hysiae and Scolus, east of
Katzula.--Leake, "N. Gr." ii. 329. See Herod. ix. 15, 25; Thuc.
iii. 24; Paus. IX. ii. 1; Strab. IX. ii.

(26) Lit. "Graos Stethos."

(27) Or, "and this move of Agesilaus was regarded as a very pretty
one."

And now, since the hour was come, Agesilaus fell back and encamped on
the very site on which he had seen the enemy drawn up in battle array.
Next day he retired by the road to Thespiae. The light troops, who
formed a free corps in the pay of the Thebans, hung audaciously at his
heels. Their shouts could be heard calling out to Chabrias (28) for not
bringing up his supports; when the cavalry of the Olynthians (who now
contributed a contingent in accordance with their oaths) (29) wheeled
round on them, caught the pursuers in the heat of their pursuit, and
drove them uphill, putting large numbers of them to the sword--so
quickly are infantry overhauled by cavalry on steep ground which can be
ridden over. Being arrived within the walls of Thespiae, Agesilaus
found the citizens in a state of party feud, the men of Lacedaemonian
proclivities desiring to put their political opponents, one of whom was
Menon, to death (30)--a proceeding which Agesilaus would not sanction.
After having healed their differences and bound them over by solemn oath
to keep the peace with one another, he at once retired, taking his
old route across Cithaeron to Megara. Here once more he disbanded the
allies, and at the head of the city troops himself marched back to
Sparta.

(28) For the exploits of Chabrias, who commanded a division of mixed
Athenians and mercenaries (see above, S. 14), see Dem. "c. Lept."
479; Polyaen. ii. 1, 2; Diod. xv. 32, 33, who gives interesting
details; Grote, "