in order to do
that which they had agreed with the other Hellenes, both Amompharetos
himself would perish being left behind and also the men with him. With
this thought they kept the Lacedemonian force from moving, and meanwhile
they endeavoured to persuade him that it was not right for him to do
so..

54. They then were exhorting Amompharetos, who had been left behind
alone of the Lacedemonians and Tegeans; and meanwhile the Athenians
were keeping themselves quiet in the place where they had been posted,
knowing the spirit of the Lacedemonians, that they were apt to say
otherwise than they really meant; 60 and when the army began to move,
they sent a horseman from their own body to see whether the Spartans
were attempting to set forth, or whether they had in truth no design at
all to retire; and they bade him ask Pausanias what they ought to do.
55. So when the herald came to the Lacedemonians, he saw that they were
still in their place and that the chiefs of them had come to strife with
one another: for when Euryanax and Pausanias both exhorted Amompharetos
not to run the risk of remaining behind with his men, alone of all the
Lacedemonians, they did not at all persuade him, and at last they had
come to downright strife; and meanwhile the herald of the Athenians had
arrived and was standing by them. And Amompharetos in his contention
took a piece of rock in both his hands and placed it at the feet of
Pausanias, saying that with this pebble he gave his vote not to fly from
the strangers, meaning the Barbarians. 61 Pausanias then, calling him a
madman and one who was not in his right senses, bade tell the state of
their affairs to the Athenian herald, 62 who was asking that which he
had been charged to ask; and at the same time he requested the Athenians
to come towards the Lacedemonians and to do in regard to the retreat the
same as they did..

56. He then went away back to the Athenians; and as the dawn of day
found them yet disputing with one another, Pausanias, who had remained
still throughout all this time, gave the signal, and led away all the
rest over the low hills, supposing that Amonpharetos would not stay
behind when the other Lacedemonians departed (in which he was in fact
right); and with them also went the Tegeans. Meanwhile the Athenians,
following the commands which were given them, were going in the
direction opposite to that of the Lacedemonians; for these were clinging
to the hills and the lower s