Note 758 — Chapter LXXX · FROM THE DEATH OF PELOPIDAS TO THE BATTLE OF MANTINEA.
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The statement of Diodorus (xv, 87) on this point appears to me more probable than that of Xenophon (vii, 5, 26).
The Athenians boasted much of this slight success with their cavalry, enhancing its value by acknowledging that all their allies had been defeated around them (Plutarch, De Gloriâ Athen. p. 350 A.).