f which I speak they
determined to remove, in order that they might be able to get an
abundant supply of water and that the cavalry might not do them damage,
as now when they were right opposite. And they proposed to remove when
the second watch of the night should have come, so that the Persians
might not see them set forth and harass them with the cavalry pursuing.
They proposed also, after they had arrived at this place, round which,
as I say, Oeroe the daughter of Asopos flows, parting into two streams
56 as she runs from Kithairon, to send half the army to Kithairon during
this same night, in order to take up their attendants who had gone to
get the supplies of provisions; for these were cut off from them in
Kithairon.

52. Having thus resolved, during the whole of that day they had trouble
unceasingly, while the cavalry pressed upon them; but when the day drew
to a close and the attacks of the cavalry had ceased, then as it was
becoming night and the time had arrived at which it had been agreed
that they should retire from their place, the greater number of them set
forth and began to retire, not however keeping it in mind to go to the
place which had been agreed upon; but on the contrary, when they had
begun to move, they readily took occasion to flee 57 from the cavalry
towards the city of the Plataians, and in their flight they came as
far as the temple of Hera, which temple is in front of the city of the
Plataians at a distance of twenty furlongs from the spring Gargaphia;
and when they had there arrived they halted in front of the temple.

53. These then were encamping about the temple of Hera; and Pausanias,
seeing that they were retiring from the camp, gave the word to the
Lacedemonians also to take up their arms and go after the others who
were preceding them, supposing that these were going to the place to
which they had agreed to go. Then, when all the other commanders were
ready to obey Pausanias, Amompharetos the son of Poliades, the commander
of the Pitanate division, 58 said that he would not flee from the
strangers, nor with his own will would he disgrace Sparta; and he
expressed wonder at seeing that which was being done, not having been
present at the former discussion. And Pausanias and Euryanax were
greatly disturbed that he did not obey them and still more that they
should be compelled to leave the Pitanate division behind, since he thus
refused; 59 for they feared that if they should leave it