After this the Lacedaemonians sent out a greater army to attack Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens, appointing as its general their king Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides. This army they sent not by sea but by land.

When they broke into Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica, the Thessalian horsemen were the first to meet them. They were routed after only a short time, and more than forty men were slain. Those who were left alive made off for +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly by the nearest way they could. Then Cleomenes, when he and the Athenians who desired freedom came into the city, drove the tyrants' family within the Pelasgic wallAn ancient fortification on the N.W. slope of the Acropolis. and besieged them there.