ted with the place, the Athenians hemmed their
front with heavy infantry and, placing the light troops round in a
circle, stoned all who had gone in. Corinth here suffered a severe blow.
The bulk of her army continued its retreat home.

About this time the Athenians began to build the long walls to the sea,
that towards Phalerum and that towards Piraeus. Meanwhile the Phocians
made an expedition against Doris, the old home of the Lacedaemonians,
containing the towns of Boeum, Kitinium, and Erineum. They had taken
one of these towns, when the Lacedaemonians under Nicomedes, son of
Cleombrotus, commanding for King Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, who was
still a minor, came to the aid of the Dorians with fifteen hundred
heavy infantry of their own, and ten thousand of their allies. After
compelling the Phocians to restore the town on conditions, they began
their retreat. The route by sea, across the Crissaean Gulf, exposed them
to the risk of being stopped by the Athenian fleet; that across Geraneia
seemed scarcely safe, the Athenians holding Megara and Pegae. For the
pass was a difficult one, and was always guarded by the Athenians; and,
in the present instance, the Lacedaemonians had information that they
meant to dispute their passage. So they resolved to remain in Boeotia,
and to consider which would be the safest line of march. They had also
another reason for this resolve. Secret encouragement had been given
them by a party in Athens, who hoped to put an end to the reign of
democracy and the building of the Long Walls. Meanwhile the Athenians
marched against them with their whole levy and a thousand Argives and
the respective contingents of the rest of their allies. Altogether they
were fourteen thousand strong. The march was prompted by the notion that
the Lacedaemonians were at a loss how to effect their passage, and also
by suspicions of an attempt to overthrow the democracy. Some cavalry
also joined the Athenians from their Thessalian allies; but these went
over to the Lacedaemonians during the battle.

The battle was fought at Tanagra in Boeotia. After heavy loss on both
sides, victory declared for the Lacedaemonians and their allies.
After entering the Megarid and cutting down the fruit trees, the
Lacedaemonians returned home across Geraneia and the isthmus. Sixty-two
days after the battle the Athenians marched into Boeotia under the
command of Myronides, defeated the Boeotians in battle at Oenophyta, and
becam