History of the Peloponnesian War

But the Athenians, with the whole power of their city and a thousand Argives and other confederates as they could be gotten together, in all fourteen thousand men, went out to meet them;

for there was suspicion that they came thither to depose the democracy.

There also came to the Athenians certain horsemen out of Thessaly, which in the battle turned to the Lacedaemonians.

They fought at Tanagra of Boeotia, and the Lacedaemonians had the victory; but the slaughter was great on both sides.

Then the Lacedaemonians, entering into the territories of Megara and cutting down the woods before them, returned home by the way of Geraneia and the Isthmus.

Upon the twoand-sixtieth day after this battle the Athenians, under the conduct of Myronides, made a journey against the Boeotians and overthrew them at Oenophyta and brought the territories of Boeotia and Phocis under their obedience, and withal razed the walls of Tanagra and took of the wealthiest of the Locrians of Opus a hundred hostages, and finished also at the same time their long walls at home.