remained at home. A battle was fought, which hung equally in the balance; and when the two armies separated, they both thought that they had gained the victory. The Athenians, who did however get rather the better, on the departure of the Corinthians erected a trophy. And then the Corinthians, irritated by the reproaches of the aged men in the city, after about twelve days' preparation came out again, and, claiming the victory, raised another trophy. Hereupon the Athenians sallied out of Megara, killed those who were erecting the trophy, and charged and defeated the rest of the army.
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The Corinthians now retreated, but a considerable
number of them were hard pressed,
They suffer great loss in their retreat.
and missing their way got into an enclosure belonging to a private person, which was surrounded
by a great ditch and had no exit. The Athenians, perceiving
their situation, closed the entrance in front with heavy-armed troops, and, placing their light troops in a circle
round, stoned all who had entered the enclosure. This
was a great blow to the Corinthians. The main body of
their army returned home.
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About this time the Athenians began to build their
The Athenians build their long walls. Battle of Tanagra.
Long Walls extending to the sea, one
to the harbour of Phalerum, and the
other to the Piraeus.B.C. 457.
Ol. 80, 4.
The Phocians
made an expedition against the Dorians, who inhabit
Boeum, Cytinium, and Erineum, and are the mother
people of the Lacedaemonians; one of these towns they
took. Thereupon the Lacedaemonians under the command of Nicomedes the son of Cleombrotus, who was
general in the place of the king Pleistoanax the son of
Pausanias (he being at that time a minor), came to the
assistance of the Dorians with fifteen hundred hoplites
of their own, and, of their allies, ten thousand, and compelled the Phocians to make terms and to restore the
town. They then thought of returning; but there were
difficulties. Either they might go by sea across the
