army defeated and an army flushed with victory.
"If you are minded," he said, "to forget this disaster, my advice to you
is to take time to recover breath and recruit your energies. When you
have grown stronger then give battle to these unconquered veterans. (22)
At present," he continued, "you know without my telling you that among
your own allies there are some who are already discussing terms of
friendship with your foes. My advice is this: by all means endeavour
to obtain a truce. This," he added, "is my own ambition: I want to save
you, on the ground of my father's friendship with yourselves, and
as being myself your representative." (23) Such was the tenor of his
speech, but the secret of action was perhaps to be found in a desire
to make these mutual antagonists put their dependence on himself
alone. Whatever his motive, the Lacedaemonians took his advice, and
commissioned him to procure a truce.

(22) Or, "the invincibles."

(23) Lit. "your proxenos."

As soon as the news arrived that the terms were arranged, the polemarchs
passed an order round: the troops were to take their evening meal, get
their kit together, and be ready to set off that night, so as to scale
the passes of Cithaeron by next morning. After supper, before the hour
of sleep, the order to march was given, and with the generals at their
head the troops advanced as the shades of evening fell, along the road
to Creusis, trusting rather to the chance of their escaping notice, than
to the truce itself. It was weary marching in the dead of night, making
their retreat in fear, and along a difficult road, until they fell in
with Archidamus's army of relief. At this point, then, Archidamus waited
till all the allies had arrived, and so led the whole of the united
armies back to Corinth, from which point he dismissed the allies and led
his fellow-citizens home.

Jason took his departure from Boeotia through Phocis, where he captured
the suburbs of Hyampolis (24) and ravaged the country districts, putting
many to the sword. Content with this, he traversed the rest of Phocis
without meddling or making. Arrived at Heraclea, (25) he knocked down
the fortress of the Heracleots, showing that he was not troubled by any
apprehension lest when the pass was thrown open somebody or other might
march against his own power at some future date. Rather was he haunted
by the notion that some one or other might one day seize Heraclea, which
commanded the pass, and