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 63-65] MEETING OF THE TWO ARMIES 153 led out their whole force, including the Helots, with an alacrity which they had never before t, r ^ ..., 1 lie Laceaactnoiitans displayed, and marched to Orestheum again had forth thdr in Maenalia. They told their Arcadian ^*-'Me force to the sup. allies to assemble and follow them at /""'^ "/ ^'•^^«- once to Tcgca. When the army had proceeded as far as Orestheum they dismissed the sixth part, including the elder and the younger men, who were to keep guard at home, and arrived at Tegea with the rest of their troops. Not long afterwards the Arcadian allies appeared. They had also sent to the Corinthians, and to the Boeotians, Phocians, and Locrians, whom they summoned to meet them with all speed at Mantinea. But the notice given to the allies was short, and their passage was barred by the enemies' country, which they could not easily traverse unless they waited for one another and came all together. However, they did their best. The Lacedaemonians, accompanied by their Arcadian allies, invaded the territory of Mantinea, and pitching their camp near the temple of Heracles, wasted the country. When the Argives and their allies saw the enemy they 65 took up a steep and hardly assailable j,,^ ^^,.^-^,, ,,,„^^ position, and arranged themselves in a hill. The Lacedae- order of battle. The Lacedaemonians '"0'"«»s charge them. , ,,, J. Ill -^S*^ nearly coniniits a mstantly charged them, and had pro- second fatal error, but ceeded within a javelin or stone's throw is induced to wtthdraw when one of the elder Spartans, seeing '"^ t'oops. After a .1 . .1 r x^i 11-11 ivhile the Argives, who the strength of the ground which they „,., „g„,„ dissatisfied were attacking, called out to Agis that ivith their generals, he was trying to mend one error by f"'^"^ '""'• another ; he meant to say that his present mistaken for- wardness was intended to repair the discredit of his former retreat. And, either in consequence of this exclamation or because ^some new thought suddenly struck him«, he " Or, 'some new thought, or the same thought (which had occurred to the Spartan elder), suddenly struck him.' M 2