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[2] Lycomedes of Mantineia, general of the Arcadians, with five thousand men styled the elite,1 came to Orchomenus. As the Lacedaemonians led forth their army from the city a great battle ensued in which the Lacedaemonian general was killed2 and two hundred others, while the rest were driven into the city.

1 These were called eparitoi. See Xen. Hell. 7.4.22, 33, 36; 5.3; and below, chap. 67.2.

2 Xen. Hell. 6.5.14.

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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