long Archidamus had received a wound which pierced
through his thigh, whilst death was busy with those who fought in
front of him, Polyaenidas and Chilon, who was wedded to the sister of
Archidamus, included. The whole of these, numbering no less than thirty,
perished in this action. Presently, falling back along the road,
they emerged into the open ground, and now with a sense of relief the
Lacedaemonians got themselves into battle order, facing the foe. The
Arcadians, without altering their position, stood in compact line, and
though falling short in actual numbers, were in far better heart--the
moral result of an attack on a retreating enemy and the severe loss
inflicted on him. The Lacedaemonians, on the other hand, were sorely
down-hearted: Archidamus lay wounded before their eyes; in their ears
rang the names of those who had died, the fallen being not only brave
men, but, one may say, the flower of Spartan chivalry. The two armies
were now close together, when one of the older men lifted up his voice
and cried: "Why need we fight, sirs? Why not rather make truce and part
friends?" Joyously the words fell on the ears of either host, and they
made a truce. The Lacedaemonians picked up their dead and retired; the
Arcadians withdrew to the point where their advance originally began,
and set up a trophy of victory.

(20) So the troops of the Arcadian Federation were named. Diodorus
(xv. 62) calls them "the select troops," {tous kaloumenous
epilektous}.

(21) See above, III. i. 22.

Now, as the Arcadians lay at Cromnus, the Eleians from the capital,
advancing in the first instance upon Pylus, fell in with the men of that
place, who had been beaten back from Thalamae. (22) Galloping along the
road, the cavalry of the Eleians, when they caught sight of them, did
not hesitate, but dashed at them at once, and put some to the sword,
while others of them fled for safety to a rising knoll. Ere long the
Eleian infantry arrived, and succeeded in dislodging this remnant on the
hillock also; some they slew, and others, nearly two hundred in number,
they took alive, all of whom where either sold, if foreigners, or, if
Eleian exiles, put to death. After this the Eleians captured the men
of Pylus and the place itself, as no one came to their rescue, and
recovered the Marganians.

(22) A strong fortress in an unfrequented situation, defended by
narrow passes (Leake, "Morea," ii. 204); it lay probably in the
r