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15. Androsthenes omnium ignarus Corintho profectus ad Nemeamamnis est Corinthium et Sicyonium1 interfluens agrumcastra locat. [2] ibi partem dimidiam exercitus, divisam trifariam,2 et omnes equites discurrere ad depopulandos simul Pellenensem Sicyoniumque agros et Phliasium iubet. [3] haec tria diversa agmina discessere. quod ubi Cleonas ad Nicostratum perlatum est, extemplo validam mercennariorum manum praemissam ad occupandum saltum, per quem transitus in Corinthium est agrum, [4?] ante signa equitibus ut praegrederentur locatis ipse confestim agmine duplici sequitur. [5] parte una mercennarii milites ibant cum levi armatura, altera clipeati; id in illarum3 gentium exercitibus robur erat. [6] iam haud procul castris aberant pedites equitesque, et Thracum quidam in vagos palatosque per agros hostes impetum fecerant,4 cum repens terror castris infertur. [p. 316] [7] trepidare dux, ut qui hostes nusquam nisi raros5 in6 collibus ante Sicyonem non audentes agmen demittere7 in campos vidisset, ab Cleonis quidem accessuros numquam credidisset. [8] revocari tuba iubet vagos a castris dilapsos8 ; ipse raptim capere arma iussis militibus infrequenti agmine porta egressus super flumen instruit aciem. [9] ceterae copiae, vix colligi atque instrui cum potuissent, primum hostium impetum non tulerunt; [10] Macedones et maxime omnium frequentes ad signa fuerant et diu ancipitem victoriae spem fecerunt; [11] postremo fuga ceterorum nudati, cum duae iam acies hostium ex diverso, levis armatura ab latere, clipeati caetratique a fronte urgerent, et ipsi re inclinata primo rettulere pedem, [12?] deinde impulsi terga vertunt et plerique abiectis armis, nulla spe castrorum tenendorum relicta, Corinthum petierunt. [13] Nicostratus mercennariis militibus ad hos persequendos, equitibus Thracumque auxiliis in populatores agri Sicyonii missis, magnam ibi quoque caedem edidit, maiorem prope quam in proelio ipso. [14] ex iis quoque qui Pellenen Phliuntaque depopulati erant, incompositi partim omniumque ignari9 ad castra revertentes in hostium stationes tamquam in suas illati sunt, [15?] partim ex discursu id quod erat suspicati ita se in fugam passim sparserunt10 ut ab ipsis agrestibus errantes circumvenirentur. [16] ceciderunt eo die mille [p. 318] et quingenti, capti trecenti. Achaia omnis magno11 liberata metu.

1 et Sicyonium ed. 1616: sicyonium B.

2 The text here accepted is that of Madvig. The reading of B is: parte dimidia exercitus dimissa dimidiam trifariam diuisit (the last word corrected from dimsit).

3 id in illarum kreyssig: dein aliarum B.

4 fecerant crévier: fecerunt B.

5 raros duker: raro B.

6 A.U.C. 557

7 demittere Gronovius: dimittere B.

8 dilapsos horrion: dilapsus B.

9 incompositi partim omniumque ignari ed. 1616 in margine: compositi partim omnium signari B.

10 sparserunt crévier: sparserant B.

11 A.U.C. 557

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