Having taken Chaeronea, [and reduced it to slavery, Poppo and Göller omit these words; Bekker and Arnold put them in brackets. ] they were retiring, after placing a garrison in it. But as they were on their march, the Boeotian exiles from Orchomenus, and with them some Locrians and exiles of the Euboeans, and all that were of the same views, attacked them at Coronea, and, having defeated them in battle, slew some of the Athenians, and took others of them alive.

So the Athenians evacuated all Boeotia, having made peace on condition of recovering their men.

And the exiles of the Boeotians were restored, and they and all the rest became independent again.