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 II, la] VICTORY AND DEATH OF BRASIDAS III with Clearidas from the pursuit, spoiled the dead, and erected a trophy. Brasidas was buried in the city with public honours in n front of what is now the Agora. The Fumral of Brasidas. whole body of the allies in military The AmphipoUtans give array followed him to the grave. The f" "''^rT' "i" ° liero anafou)iaer,super- Amphipolitans enclosed his sepulchre, seding Hagnou ivho and to this day they sacrifice to him was theiy real founder. as to a hero, and have also instituted games and yearly offerings in his honour. They likewise made him their founder, and dedicated their colony to him, pulling down •' the buildings which Hagnon had erected ", and obliterating any memorials which might have remained to future time of his foundation ''. For they considered Brasidas to have been their deliverer, and under the present circumstances the fear of Athens induced them to pay court to their Lacedaemonian allies. That Hagnon should retain the honours of a founder, now that they were enemies of the Athenians, seemed to them no longer in accordance with their interests, and likely to be displeasing to him. They gave back to the Athenians their dead, who num- bered about six hundred, while only seven were slain on the other side. For there was no regular engagement, but an unforeseen circumstance led to the battle ; and the Athenians were panic-stricken before it had well begun. After the recovery of the dead the Athenians went home by sea. Clearidas and his companions remained and administered the affairs of Amphipolis. At the end of the summer, a little before this time, a 12 reinforcement of nine hundred heavy- a ■ r. , J A reiHjorcetnent sent armed, under the command of the by the Lacedaemoniatts Lacedaemonian generals Rhamphias, '" Amphipolis arrives Autocharidas, and Epicydidas, set out ' <''«f<'«. for Chalcidice. Coming first to Heraclea in Trachis^, they regulated whatever appeared to them to be amiss. They
 * Or, ' the shrine of Hagnon ' ^' Cp. iv. 102 fin. <^ Cp. iii. q2, 93.