Kitap 2
4.32
As he was returning, some of the enemy attacked him and caused him trouble, whereupon, becoming403 B.C. angry, he ordered the cavalry to charge upon them at full speed, and the infantrymen within ten years of military ageI.e. the youngest ten year-classes, each year-class including those who reached military age (I.e., the age of 20) in the same year. to follow the cavalry; while he himself with the rest of his troops came along in the rear. And they killed nearly thirty of the enemy’s light troops and pursued the rest to the theatre in Piraeus.
4.33
There, as it chanced, the whole body of the light troops and likewise the hoplites of the men in Piraeus were arming themselves. And the light troops, rushing forth at once, set to throwing javelins, hurling stones, shooting arrows, and discharging slings; then the Lacedaemonians, since many of them were being wounded and they were hard pressed, gave ground, though still facing the enemy; and at this the latter attacked much more vigorously. In this attack Chaeron and Thibrachus, both of them polemarchs,The title of the commander of a Lacedaemonian regiment. were slain, and Lacrates, the Olympic victor, and other Lacedaemonians who lie buried before the gates of Athens in the Cerameicus.
