wing, to bring up their reliefs in support of
the portion next them, he posted bodies of cavalry and heavy infantry on
certain hillocks in front of them, intending to create in their minds an
apprehension that, in case they offered such assistance, they would be
attacked on their own rear by these detachments. Such was the plan of
encounter which he formed and executed; nor was he cheated in his hopes.
He had so much the mastery at his point of attack that he caused the
whole of the enemy's troops to take flight.

(14) See Rustow and Kochly, p. 176; and for the {amippoi}
Harpocration, s.v.; Pollus, i. 131; "Hipparch." v. 13; Thuc. v.
58; Herod. vii. 158; Caes. "B. G." i. 48; "B. Civ." iii. 84.

But after he himself had fallen, the rest of the Thebans were not able
any longer to turn their victory rightly to account. Though the
main battle line of their opponents had given way, not a single man
afterwards did the victorious hoplites slay, not an inch forward did
they advance from the ground on which the collision took place. Though
the cavalry had fled before them, there was no pursuit; not a man,
horseman or hoplite, did the conquering cavalry cut down; but, like men
who have suffered a defeat, as if panic-stricken (15) they slipped
back through the ranks of the fleeing foemen. Only the footmen fighting
amongst the cavalry and the light infantry, who had together shared in
the victory of the cavalry, found their way round to the left wing as
masters of the field, but it cost them dear; here they encountered the
Athenians, and most of them were cut down.

(15) Or, "they timorously slipped back."

The effective result of these achievements was the very opposite of that
which the world at large anticipated. Here, where well-nigh the whole
of Hellas was met together in one field, and the combatants stood rank
against rank confronted, there was no one doubted that, in the event
of battle, the conquerors would this day rule; and that those who lost
would be their subjects. But God so ordered it that both belligerents
alike set up trophies as claiming victory, and neither interfered with
the other in the act. Both parties alike gave back their enemy's dead
under a truce, and in right of victory; both alike, in symbol of defeat,
under a truce took back their dead. And though both claimed to have won
the day, neither could show that he had thereby gained any accession of
territory, or state, or empire, or was better