h the rest. The Corinthians first
attacked the right wing of the Athenians, which had just landed in front
of Chersonese, and afterwards the rest of the army. The battle was an
obstinate one, and fought throughout hand to hand. The right wing of the
Athenians and Carystians, who had been placed at the end of the
line, received and with some difficulty repulsed the Corinthians,
who thereupon retreated to a wall upon the rising ground behind, and
throwing down the stones upon them, came on again singing the paean, and
being received by the Athenians, were again engaged at close quarters.
At this moment a Corinthian company having come to the relief of the
left wing, routed and pursued the Athenian right to the sea, whence they
were in their turn driven back by the Athenians and Carystians from
the ships. Meanwhile the rest of the army on either side fought on
tenaciously, especially the right wing of the Corinthians, where
Lycophron sustained the attack of the Athenian left, which it was feared
might attempt the village of Solygia.

After holding on for a long while without either giving way, the
Athenians aided by their horse, of which the enemy had none, at length
routed the Corinthians, who retired to the hill and, halting, remained
quiet there, without coming down again. It was in this rout of the right
wing that they had the most killed, Lycophron their general being among
the number. The rest of the army, broken and put to flight in this way
without being seriously pursued or hurried, retired to the high ground
and there took up its position. The Athenians, finding that the enemy no
longer offered to engage them, stripped his dead and took up their own
and immediately set up a trophy. Meanwhile, the half of the Corinthians
left at Cenchreae to guard against the Athenians sailing on Crommyon,
although unable to see the battle for Mount Oneion, found out what was
going on by the dust, and hurried up to the rescue; as did also the
older Corinthians from the town, upon discovering what had occurred. The
Athenians seeing them all coming against them, and thinking that they
were reinforcements arriving from the neighbouring Peloponnesians,
withdrew in haste to their ships with their spoils and their own dead,
except two that they left behind, not being able to find them, and going
on board crossed over to the islands opposite, and from thence sent a
herald, and took up under truce the bodies which they had left behind.
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