History of the Peloponnesian War

And some one asked him why he was so astonished; and how many of them had been killed; his interrogator again supposing him to be the herald from the troops at Idomene. He said,

About two hundred.

His interrogator, taking him up, said,

These then are evidently not the arms [of such a number], but of more than a thousand.

The herald said in reply,

Then they are not the arms of those who fought with us.

He answered,

Yes, they are; if at least it was you that fought yesterday at Idomene.

We fought with no one yesterday; but the day before, on our retreat.

Ay, but we fought yesterday with these, who had come as a reinforcement from the city of the Ambraciots.