in Chalcidice the women and children of
the Scionaeans and Mendaeans, and sent over to them five hundred
Peloponnesian heavy infantry and three hundred Chalcidian targeteers,
all under the command of Polydamidas.

Leaving these two towns to prepare together against the speedy arrival
of the Athenians, Brasidas and Perdiccas started on a second joint
expedition into Lyncus against Arrhabaeus; the latter with the forces
of his Macedonian subjects, and a corps of heavy infantry composed of
Hellenes domiciled in the country; the former with the Peloponnesians
whom he still had with him and the Chalcidians, Acanthians, and the rest
in such force as they were able. In all there were about three thousand
Hellenic heavy infantry, accompanied by all the Macedonian cavalry with
the Chalcidians, near one thousand strong, besides an immense crowd
of barbarians. On entering the country of Arrhabaeus, they found the
Lyncestians encamped awaiting them, and themselves took up a position
opposite. The infantry on either side were upon a hill, with a plain
between them, into which the horse of both armies first galloped down
and engaged a cavalry action. After this the Lyncestian heavy infantry
advanced from their hill to join their cavalry and offered battle; upon
which Brasidas and Perdiccas also came down to meet them, and engaged
and routed them with heavy loss; the survivors taking refuge upon the
heights and there remaining inactive. The victors now set up a trophy
and waited two or three days for the Illyrian mercenaries who were to
join Perdiccas. Perdiccas then wished to go on and attack the villages
of Arrhabaeus, and to sit still no longer; but Brasidas, afraid that the
Athenians might sail up during his absence, and of something happening
to Mende, and seeing besides that the Illyrians did not appear, far from
seconding this wish was anxious to return.

While they were thus disputing, the news arrived that the Illyrians
had actually betrayed Perdiccas and had joined Arrhabaeus; and the fear
inspired by their warlike character made both parties now think it best
to retreat. However, owing to the dispute, nothing had been settled as
to when they should start; and night coming on, the Macedonians and
the barbarian crowd took fright in a moment in one of those mysterious
panics to which great armies are liable; and persuaded that an army many
times more numerous than that which had really arrived was advancing and
all but upon