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[2] In the battle by Tegyra,1 Pelopidas alone of the boeotarchs won victory over the Lacedaemonians, the most powerful of the Greeks, the first occasion when on account of the importance of the victory the Thebans erected a trophy over the Lacedaemonians. In the battle of Leuctra he commanded the Sacred Band,2 with which he charged the Spartans first and thus was the primary cause of the victory. In the campaigns about Lacedaemon, he commanded seventy thousand men, and in the very territory of Sparta erected a trophy of victory over the Lacedaemonians, who never in all previous time had seen their land plundered.3

1 A village of Boeotia near Orchomenus. The battle of Tegyra is described by Plut. Pelopidas 16 f. as a "sort of prelude" to that of Leuctra and one of Pelopidas' most glorious exploits.

2 See Plut. Pelopidas 18; 20.2; 23.2, 4, Nepos Pelopidas 4.2.

3 See chaps. 62.4 ff. and notes.

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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