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city, at the distance of about twenty furlongs from Gargaphia; and
here they pitched their camp in front of the sacred building.
As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops in motion, he
issued orders to the Lacedaemonians to strike their tents and follow
those who had been the first to depart, supposing that they were on
their march to the place agreed upon. All the captains but one were
ready to obey his orders: Amompharetus, however, the son of
Poliadas, who was leader of the Pitanate cohort, refused to move,
saying, "He for one would not fly from the strangers, or of his own
will bring disgrace upon Sparta." It had happened that he was absent
from the former conference of the captains; and so what was now taking
place astonished him. Pausanias and Euryanax thought it a monstrous
thing that Amompharetus would not hearken to them; but considered that
it would be yet more monstrous, if, when he was so minded, they were
to leave the Pitanates to their fate; seeing that, if they forsook
them to keep their agreement with the other Greeks, Amompharetus and
those with him might perish. On this account, therefore, they kept the
Lacedaemonian force in its place, and made every endeavour to persuade
Amompharetus that he was wrong to act as he was doing.
While the Spartans were engaged in these efforts to turn
Amompharetus- the only man unwilling to retreat either in their own
army or in that of the Tegeans- the Athenians on their side did as
follows. Knowing that it was the Spartan temper to say one thing and
no another, they remained quiet in their station until the army
began to retreat, when they despatched a horseman to see whether the
Spartans really meant to set forth, or whether after all they had no
intention of moving. The horseman was also to ask Pausanias what he
wished the Athenians to do.
The herald on his arrival found the Lacedaemonians drawn up in
their old position, and their leaders quarrelling with one another.
Pausanias and Euryanax had gone on urging Amompharetus not to endanger
the lives of his men by staying behind while the others drew off,
but without succeeding in persuading him; until at last the dispute
had waxed hot between them just at the moment when the Athenian herald
arrived. At this point Amompharetus, who was still disputing, took
up with both his hands a vast rock, and placed it at the feet of
Pausanias, saying- "With this pebble I give my vote not to run away
from the strangers." (By "strangers" he meant barbarians.)
Pausanias, in reply, called him a fool and a madman, and, turning to
the Athenian herald, who had made the inquiries with which he was
charged, bade him tell his countrymen how he was occupied, and ask
them to approach nearer, and retreat or not according to the movements
of the Spartans.
So the herald went back to the Athenians; and the Spartans
continued to dispute till morning began to dawn upon them. Then
Pausanias, who as yet had not moved, gave the signal for retreat-
expecting (and rightly, as the event proved) that Amompharetus, when
he saw the rest of the Lacedaemonians in motion, would be unwilling to
be left behind. No sooner was the signal given, than all the army
except the Pitanates began their march, and retreated along the line
of the hills; the Tegeans accompanying them. The Athenians likewise
set off in good order, but proceeded by a different way from the
Lacedaemonians. For while the latter clung to the hilly ground and the
skirts of Mount Cithaeron, on account of the fear which they
entertained of the enemy's horse, the former betook themselves to
the low country and marched through the plain.
As for Amompharetus, at first he did not believe that Pausanias
would really dare to leave him behind; he therefore remained firm in
his resolve to keep his men at their post; when, however, Pausanias
and his troops were now some way off, Amompharetus, thinking himself
forsaken in good earnest, ordered his band to take their arms, and led
them at a walk towards the main army. Now the army was waiting for
them at a distance of about ten furlongs, having halted upon the river
Moloeis at a place called Argiopius, where stands a temple dedicated