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98.
Still as long as their archers had arrows
left and were able to use them, they held out, the light-armed Aetolians
retiring before the arrows; but after the captain of the archers had been killed and his men scattered,
the soldiers, wearied out with the constant repetition of the same exertions
[2]
and hard pressed by the Aetolians with their javelins, at last turned and
fled, and falling into pathless gullies and places that they were
unacquainted with, thus perished, the Messenian Chromon, their guide, having
also unfortunately been killed.
A great many were overtaken in the pursuit by the swift-footed and
light-armed Aetolians, and fell beneath their javelins; the greater number however missed their road and rushed into the wood,
which had no ways out, and which was soon fired and burnt round them by the
enemy.
[3]
Indeed the Athenian army fell victims to death in every form, and suffered
all the vicissitudes of flight; the survivors escaped with difficulty to the sea and Oeneon in Locris,
whence they had set out.
[4]
Many of the allies were killed, and about one hundred and twenty Athenian
heavy infantry, not a man less, and all in the prime of life.
These were by far the best men in the city of Athens that fell during this
war.
Among the slain was also Procles, the colleague of Demosthenes.
[5]
Meanwhile the Athenians took up their dead under truce from the Aetolians,
and retired to Naupactus, and from thence went in their ships to Athens; Demosthenes staying behind in Naupactus and in the neighborhood, being
afraid to face the Athenians after the disaster.
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