edaemonian and Tegean
right simultaneously closing round the Athenians with the troops that
outflanked them, these last found themselves placed between two fires,
being surrounded on one side and already defeated on the other. Indeed
they would have suffered more severely than any other part of the army,
but for the services of the cavalry which they had with them. Agis also
on perceiving the distress of his left opposed to the Mantineans and the
thousand Argives, ordered all the army to advance to the support of the
defeated wing; and while this took place, as the enemy moved past and
slanted away from them, the Athenians escaped at their leisure, and
with them the beaten Argive division. Meanwhile the Mantineans and their
allies and the picked body of the Argives ceased to press the enemy,
and seeing their friends defeated and the Lacedaemonians in full advance
upon them, took to flight. Many of the Mantineans perished; but the bulk
of the picked body of the Argives made good their escape. The flight
and retreat, however, were neither hurried nor long; the Lacedaemonians
fighting long and stubbornly until the rout of their enemy, but that
once effected, pursuing for a short time and not far.

Such was the battle, as nearly as possible as I have described it; the
greatest that had occurred for a very long while among the Hellenes,
and joined by the most considerable states. The Lacedaemonians took up
a position in front of the enemy's dead, and immediately set up a trophy
and stripped the slain; they took up their own dead and carried them
back to Tegea, where they buried them, and restored those of the enemy
under truce. The Argives, Orneans, and Cleonaeans had seven hundred
killed; the Mantineans two hundred, and the Athenians and Aeginetans
also two hundred, with both their generals. On the side of the
Lacedaemonians, the allies did not suffer any loss worth speaking of: as
to the Lacedaemonians themselves it was difficult to learn the truth; it
is said, however, that there were slain about three hundred of them.

While the battle was impending, Pleistoanax, the other king, set out
with a reinforcement composed of the oldest and youngest men, and got
as far as Tegea, where he heard of the victory and went back again. The
Lacedaemonians also sent and turned back the allies from Corinth and
from beyond the Isthmus, and returning themselves dismissed their
allies, and kept the Carnean holidays, which happened to be at