Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
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. Two hundred and twelve Corinthians
fell in the battle, and rather less than fifty Athenians.
Weighing from the islands, the Athenians sailed the same day to
Crommyon in the Corinthian territory, about thirteen miles from the
city, and coming to anchor laid waste the country, and passed the night
there. The next day, after first coasting along to the territory of
Epidaurus and making a descent there, they came to Methana between
Epidaurus and Troezen, and drew a wall across and fortified the isthmus
of the peninsula, and left a post there from which incursions were
henceforth made upon the country of Troezen, Haliae, and Epidaurus.
After walling off this spot, the fleet sailed off home.
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