History of the Peloponnesian War

So Delium was taken seventeen days after the battle, and when the Athenian herald, who knew nothing of what had happened, came back not long after to ask for the dead, the Boeotians did not again make the same answer but gave them up.

And there were slain in the battle, of the Boeotians a little more than five hundred, of the Athenians a little less than one thousand, including Hippocrates their general, besides a great number of light-armed troops and baggage-carriers.

Not long after this battle Demosthenes, since he had failed in his negotiations about the betrayal of Siphae, when he sailed thither at the time mentioned above,[*](cf. 4.89.1) took on his ships his force of Acarnanians and Agraeans and four hundred Athenian hoplites and made a descent upon the territory of Sicyon.

But before all his ships had come to shore the Sicyonians came to the rescue, and routing those who had disembarked pursued them to their ships, killing some and taking others alive.

Then setting up a trophy they gave up the dead under truce. Sitalces,[*](cf. lxvii., xcv., ci.) too, king of the Odrysians, was killed about the same time as the events at Delium, having made an expedition against the Triballi,[*](cf. xcvi.) who defeated him in battle. Seuthes[*](cf. 2.101.5.) son of Sparadocus, his nephew, now became king of the Odrysians and of the rest of Thrace over which Sitalces had reigned.