oin battle, the Corinthians
first, considering with themselves that they were not acting rightly,
changed their minds and departed; and after that Demaratos the son of
Ariston did the same, who was king of the Spartans as well as Cleomenes,
though he had joined with him in leading the army out from Lacedemon and
had not been before this at variance with Cleomenes. In consequence
of this dissension a law was laid down at Sparta that it should not be
permitted, when an army went out, that both the kings should go with
it, for up to this time both used to go with it, and that as one of the
kings was set free from service, so one of the sons of Tyndareus 64
also should be left behind; for before this time both of these two were
called upon by them for help and went with the armies.

76. At this time then in Eleusis the rest of the allies, seeing that the
kings of the Lacedemonians did not agree and also that the Corinthians
had deserted their place in the ranks, themselves too departed and got
them away quickly. And this was the fourth time that the Dorians had
come to Attica, twice having invaded it to make war against it, and
twice to help the mass of the Athenian people,--first when they at the
same time colonised Megara (this expedition may rightly be designated as
taking place when Codros was king of the Athenians), for the second and
third times when they came making expeditions from Sparta to drive out
the sons of Peisistratos, and fourthly on this occasion, when Cleomenes
at the head of the Peloponnesians invaded Eleusis: thus the Dorians
invaded Athens then for the fourth time.

77. This army then having been ingloriously broken up, the Athenians
after that, desiring to avenge themselves, made expedition first against
the Chalkidians; and the Boeotians came to the Euripos to help the
Chalkidians. The Athenians, therefore, seeing those who had come
to help, 6401 resolved first to attack the Boeotians before the
Chalkidians. Accordingly they engaged battle with the Boeotians, and
had much the better of them, and after having slain very many they
took seven hundred of them captive. On this very same day the Athenians
passed over into Euboea and engaged battle with the Chalkidians as well;
and having conquered these also, they left four thousand holders of
allotments in the land belonging to the "Breeders of Horses": 65 now the
wealthier of the Chalkidians were called the Breeders of Horses. And
as many of them as the