sult." Accordingly
issuing out by the palisade gate and by the first in the long wall then
existing, he ran at the top of his speed along the straight road, where
the trophy now stands as you go by the steepest part of the hill, and
fell upon and routed the centre of the Athenians, panic-stricken by
their own disorder and astounded at his audacity. At the same moment
Clearidas in execution of his orders issued out from the Thracian gates
to support him, and also attacked the enemy. The result was that the
Athenians, suddenly and unexpectedly attacked on both sides, fell into
confusion; and their left towards Eion, which had already got on some
distance, at once broke and fled. Just as it was in full retreat and
Brasidas was passing on to attack the right, he received a wound; but
his fall was not perceived by the Athenians, as he was taken up by those
near him and carried off the field. The Athenian right made a better
stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting,
at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his
infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed
the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were
surrounded and routed by the missiles of the Myrcinian and Chalcidian
horse and the targeteers. Thus the Athenian army was all now in flight;
and such as escaped being killed in the battle, or by the Chalcidian
horse and the targeteers, dispersed among the hills, and with difficulty
made their way to Eion. The men who had taken up and rescued Brasidas,
brought him into the town with the breath still in him: he lived to hear
of the victory of his troops, and not long after expired. The rest of
the army returning with Clearidas from the pursuit stripped the dead and
set up a trophy.

After this all the allies attended in arms and buried Brasidas at the
public expense in the city, in front of what is now the marketplace, and
the Amphipolitans, having enclosed his tomb, ever afterwards sacrifice
to him as a hero and have given to him the honour of games and annual
offerings. They constituted him the founder of their colony, and pulled
down the Hagnonic erections, and obliterated everything that could be
interpreted as a memorial of his having founded the place; for they
considered that Brasidas had been their preserver, and courting as they
did the alliance of Lacedaemon for fear of Athens, in their present
hostile relations with