Book 11
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The whole of the Achaean mercenaries having been drivenMachanidas pursues the fugitives, and thus allows the Achaean hoplites to get between him and his quarters. from their ground, and their leftwing having been thoroughly broken up, Machanidas abandoned his original plan of winning the day by outflanking the enemy with some of his forces and charging their front with others, and did neither; but, quite losing his head, rushed forward heedlessly with all his mercenaries in pursuit of the fugitives, as though the panic was not in itself sufficient to drive those who had once given way up to the town gates.
