V. 10 THUCYDIDES

attacking. "But let someone open the gates for me as instructed,
6 and let us charge out as quickly as possible with courage." And he [Brasidas], having
gone out by the gates at the stockade and the first ones of the long wall
which then existed, ran at full speed along that straight road
where the trophy 5 original: τροπαῖον — a monument erected by ancient Greek victors on the battlefield at the exact spot where the enemy turned to flee. now stands as one goes past the strongest part of the position.
Attacking the Athenians—who were frightened by their own
lack of order and stunned by his daring—
7 he threw the center of their army into retreat. And Clearidas,
as had been instructed, charged out at the same time through the Thracian gates
with the army and pressed the attack. It happened that due to the unexpected 10

8 and sudden assault, the Athenians were thrown into chaos
from both sides. Their left wing, which was toward Eion and
had already advanced, immediately broke away and fled.
While Brasidas was moving along to the right wing as it was already retreating,
he was wounded; 15 as he fell, the Athenians did not notice, but
9 those near him picked him up and carried him off the field. The Athenian
right wing held its ground better. Cleon, who from the first
had no intention of staying, immediately fled and was overtaken and killed
by a Myrcinian peltast peltast: a type of light-armed infantryman, typically carrying a small shield called a pelta and javelins.. His hoplites hoplite: a heavily armed foot soldier, the backbone of Greek armies. gathered
on the hill and defended themselves against Clearidas, even as he attacked 20

two or three times; they did not give way until the
Myrcinian and Chalcidian cavalry and the peltasts
10 surrounded them and broke them with a shower of javelins. Thus,
the entire Athenian army was now in flight, suffering greatly and
taking many different paths through the mountains. Those who were not destroyed 25

either in the immediate combat or by the Chalcidian cavalry and the
11 peltasts—the survivors—made their way back to Eion.
Those who had picked up Brasidas from the battle and rescued him
brought him back into the city while he was still breathing. He learned that his
men were victorious, 12 and after a short time, he died. The rest of 30

the army, returning with Clearidas from the pursuit...