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[5] When the armies approached each other and with a great outcry clashed in the battle, Philip, commanding the right wing, which consisted of the flower of the Macedonians serving under him, ordered his cavalry to ride past the ranks of the barbarians and attack them on the flank, while he himself falling on the enemy in a frontal assault began a bitter combat.1

1 See chap. 8.1; Justin 7.6.7 and Frontinus Strat. 2.3.2. Beloch has a critical account of this battle, which he places near Monastir, in Griechische Geschichte (2), 3.1.226, note 2. He believes that the plan of battle was Parmenio's.

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