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84. πυθόμενος δὲ παρὰ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων
ὅτι Μαντινεῖς πανδημεὶ πάρεισι βοηθοῦντες τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις, τότε
μὲν ἀναχωρήσας μικρὸν ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως κατεστρατοπέδευσεν: παραγγείλας
δὲ δειπνοποιεῖσθαι, καταλιπὼν τῶν ἱππέων τινάς, τούτοις μὲν
παρήγγειλεν ἕως ἑωθινῆς φυλακῆς πυρὰ καίειν ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ,
αὐτὸς δὲ μετὰ τῆς δυνάμεως ἀφορμήσας ἔσπευσεν ἄφνω προσπεσεῖν τοῖς
ἀπολελειμμένοις ἐν τῇ Μαντινείᾳ.
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τῇ
δ᾽ ὑστεραίᾳ πολλὴν διανύσας ὁδὸν ἄφνω τοῖς Μαντινεῦσιν ἀνελπίστως
ἐπέρραξεν, οὐ μὴν ἐκράτησε τῆς ἐπιβολῆς, καίπερ ἅπαντα τῇ
στρατηγίᾳ προνοησάμενος, ἀλλὰ τὴν τύχην λαβὼν ἀντιπράττουσαν
παραδόξως ἀπέβαλε τὴν νίκην. ἄρτι γὰρ αὐτοῦ πλησιάζοντος ἐρήμῳ
τῇ πόλει κατήντησαν ἐπὶ θάτερα τῆς Μαντινείας οἱ πεμφθέντες ὑπὸ
τῶν Ἀθηναίων στρατιῶται πρὸς τὴν συμμαχίαν, ὄντες ἑξακισχίλιοι,
στρατηγὸν δ᾽ ἔχοντες Ἡγησίλεων, ἄνδρα τότε παρὰ τοῖς πολίταις
ἐπαινουμένον. οὗτος δὲ τοὺς ἱκανοὺς εἰς τὴν πόλιν παρεισαγαγών, τὴν
ἄλλην δύναμιν ἐξέταξεν ὡς μάχῃ διακριθησόμενος.
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εὐθὺς δὲ καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ Μαντινεῖς
ἐπεφάνησαν, καὶ πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὅλων κρίσιν ἅπαντες κατεσκευάζοντο καὶ
τοὺς πανταχόθεν συμμάχους μετεπέμποντο.
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τοῖς μὲν οὖν Μαντινεῦσιν ἐβοήθουν Ἠλεῖοι καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ
Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ ἄλλοι τινές, ὧν ὁ σύμπας ἀριθμὸς ἦν πεζοὶ μὲν
πλείους τῶν δισμυρίων, ἱππεῖς δὲ περὶ δισχιλίους: τοῖς δὲ Τεγεάταις
συνεμάχουν οἱ πλεῖστοι καὶ κράτιστοι τῶν Ἀρκάδων καὶ Ἀχαιοὶ καὶ
Βοιωτοὶ καὶ Ἀργεῖοι καί τινες ἕτεροι τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ τῶν
ἔξωθεν συμμάχων, οἱ δὲ πάντες ἠθροίσθησαν πεζοὶ μὲν ὑπὲρ τοὺς
τρισμυρίους, ἱππεῖς δ᾽ οὐκ ἐλάττους τῶν τρισχιλίων.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1502
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MANTINEIA
- Smith's Bio, Hege'lochus
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