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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: but they were not in full force. And here counsellors were to be found
who urged on Agesilaus to attack these troops separately; but fearing
lest, in proportion as he pressed on to engage them, the Mantineans
might issue from the city behind and attack him on flank and rear, he
decided it was best to let the two bodies coalesce, and then, if they
would accept battle, to engage them on an open and fair field.
[15] See "Ages." ii. 23.
[16] See Leake, "Morea," iii. 73.
[17] Lit. "twenty stades."
And so ere long the Arcadians had effected their object and were
united with the Mantineans. The next incident was the sudden
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