Lastly, to prevent any attempt on the part of the Athenians,
who were on the enemy's left wing, to bring up their reliefs in
support of the portion next them, he posted bodies of cavalry
and heavy infantry on certain hillocks in front of them, intend-
ing to create in their minds an apprehension that, in case they
offered such assistance, they would be attacked on their own
rear by these detachments. Such was the plan of encounter
which he formed and executed ; nor was he cheated in his hopes.
He had so much the mastery at his point of attack that he
caused the whole of the enemy's troops to take to flight.
of the column which gave it the force of an ironclad's ram. Cf. Cyrop. 11. iv.
for eis ^Tiairov.
' See Rustow and Kochly, p. 176 ; and for the &iuinroi. Harpocration, s.v. ;
Pollux, i. 131 ; Hipparch. v. 13 ; Thuc. v. 58 ; Herod, vii. 158 ; Caes. B. G.
i. 48 ; B. Civ. iii. 84.
Bx/362 '''"' } DEATH OF EPAMINONDAS 233

But after he himself had fallen, the rest of the Thebans
were not able any longer to turn their victory rightly to account.
