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 96 PERDICCAS AND BRASIDAS [iV dangerous point of the defile they began to surround him in the hope of cutting him off. 128 Perceiving their intention, he told his three hundred to „, , , leave their ranks and run every man as Brastdas dislodges. ^, timu, and they foUoiv ^^st as he could to the top of one ol the no fintlier. lil-fteimg hills, being the one which he thought increases between Bra- ^^^ barbarians would be most likely to sidas and Perdiccas. 1 ■ <- 1 c occupy ; and before a larger number ot them could come up and surround them, to dislodge those who were already there «. They accordingly attacked and defeated them ; and so the main body of his army more easily reached the summit ; for the barbarians, seeing their comrades defeated and driven from the high ground, took alarm ; they considered too that the enemy were already on the borders of the country, and had got away from them, and therefore followed no further. Brasidas had now gained the high ground and could march unmolested ; on the same day he arrived at Arnissa, which is in the dominion of Perdiccas. The soldiers were enraged at the hasty retreat of the Macedonians, and when they came upon carts of theirs drawn by oxen, or an}' baggage which had been dropped in the flight, as was natural in a retreat made in a panic and by night, they of themselves loosed the oxen and slaughtered them, and appropriated the baggage. From that time forward Perdiccas regarded Brasidas in the light of a foe, and conceived a new hatred of the Peloponncsians, which was not a natural feeling in an enemy of the Athenians. Nevertheless, disregarding his own nearest interests, he took steps to make terms with the one and get rid of the other. 129 Brasidas returned from Macedonia to Torone, and when Ntaas attempts to he arrived there found the Athenians take Mende, but fails. already in possession of Mende. .Thinking it now too late to cross over to Pallene and assist Mende and Scione, he remained quiet and guarded Adopting with Poppo the correction inovra^.