in the darkness, and the
replacing them when the elephants had passed through the gate, caused
an amount of delay and confusion which at length roused the slumbering
inhabitants; they ran together to the place called "the Shield," and
the other places of strength in the city, and sent messengers to call
Antigonus to their aid. He at once marched up close to the city, and
remained there with a reserve, but sent his son and several of his
officers with a large part of his forces to assist the Argives within
their city walls. Areus the king of Sparta also arrived, with a
thousand Cretans and the swiftest footed of the Spartans. All these
troops now at once attacked the Gauls and threw them into great
disorder. As Pyrrhus, however, marched in by the street called
Kylarabis, his soldiers raised a warlike shout: and he, noticing that
the shout was echoed by the Gauls in the market-place in an undecided,
faint-hearted fashion, at once guessed that they were being hard
pressed. He instantly pressed the horsemen with him to charge, which
they did with great difficulty, as the horses kept falling into the
water-courses with which the whole city is intersected. The night was
spent in wild tumult and skirmishing in the narrow lanes, both
parties being unable to recognize or obey their leaders, and eagerly
awaiting the dawn. The first rays of light showed Pyrrhus the whole
open square called "the Shield" full of enemies, while he was even
more disturbed by the sight of a brazen statue in the market-place,
representing a wolf and a bull about to attack one another; for he
remembered an oracle which had long before foretold that he must die
when he should see a wolf fighting with a bull. The Argives say that
this statue commemorates the legend that Danaus when he first landed
in the country at Pyramia, near Thyrea, was marching towards Argos
when he saw a wolf fighting with a bull. Danaus decided that the wolf
must represent himself, because he was a stranger, and was come to
attack the people of the country, like it; and he stopped and watched
the fight. When the wolf gained the day, he offered prayer to Apollo
Lykius, made his attempt upon the throne of Argos, and was successful,
as Gelanor, who was then king, was forced into exile by a revolution.
This is the account which the Argives give of these statues.

XXXIII. This sight, and the failure of his plans, disheartened
Pyrrhus, and he began to think of retreating. As the gates we