History of the Peloponnesian War

There were slain, of the Argives, Orneates and Cleonaeans seven hundred, of the Mantineans two hundred, of the Athenians, together with the Aeginetans,[*](Athenian colonists settled in Aegina; cf. 2.27.1.) two hundred, and both their generals. On the side of the Lacedaemonians, the allies did not suffer so that any number worth mentioning was missing; about themselves it was difficult to learn the truth, but near three hundred were said to have been killed.

As the battle was about to take place, Pleistoanax, the other king, set out with the older and younger men[*](cf. 5.64.3.) to bring succour, and got as far as Tegea; but learning there of the victory he returned.

The allies, too, from Corinth and from outside the Isthmus[*](cf. 5.64.4.) were turned back by messengers sent by the Lacedaemonians, who then likewise withdrew and, dismissing their allies, celebrated the festival of the Carneia; for it happened[*](Aug. 418 B.C.) to fall

at that time. And the charge brought against them at that time by the Hellenes, both of cowardice because of the calamity on the island of Sphacteria, and of general bad judgment and dilatoriness, they had wiped out by

this one action; they were thought to have incurred disgrace through ill-luck, but to be still the same in spirit. The day before this battle it happened also that the Epidaurians in full force invaded the territory of Argos, thinking to find it now undefended, and slew many of those who had been left behind as guards when the main body of the Argives had