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[5] Chabrias1 the Athenian, however, leading his mercenary troops, ordered his men to receive the enemy with a show of contempt, maintaining all the while their battle lines, and, leaning their shields against their knees, to wait with upraised spear.

1 For the role of Chabrias see Polyaenus 2.1.2;Nepos Chabrias 1; Dem. 20.76.

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