ight infantry. These passed by duly in the night, not
unobserved, however, by Agesilaus, who at once turned round at break of
day and advanced on Piraeum. He himself kept to the low ground by the
hot springs, (4) sending a division to scale the top of the pass. That
night he encamped at the hot springs, while the division bivouacked
in the open, in possession of the pass. Here Agesilaus distinguished
himself by an invention as seasonable as it was simple. Among those
who carried provisions for the division not one had thought of bringing
fire. The altitude was considerable; there had been a fall of rain and
hail towards evening and the temperature was low; besides which, the
scaling party were clad in thin garments suited to the summer season.
There they sat shivering in the dark, with scarcely heart to attack
their suppers, when Agesilaus sent up to them as many as ten porters
carrying fire in earthen pots. One found his way up one way, one
another, and presently there were many bonfires blazing--magnificently
enough, since there was plenty of wood to hand; so that all fell to
oiling themselves and many supped over again. The same night the sky was
lit up by the blaze of the temple of Poseidon--set on fire no one knows
how.

(4) Near mod. Lutraki.

When the men in Piraeum perceived that the pass was occupied, they at
once abandoned all thought of self-defence and fled for refuge to the
Heraion (5)--men and women, slaves and free-born, with the greater part
of their flocks and herds. Agesilaus, with the main body, meanwhile
pursued his march by the sea-shore, and the division, simultaneously
descending from the heights, captured the fortified position of Oenoe,
appropriating its contents. Indeed, all the troops on that day reaped
a rich harvest in the supplies they brought in from various farmsteads.
Presently those who had escaped into the Heraion came out, offering to
leave it to Agesilaus to decide what he would do with them. He decided
to deliver up to the exiles all those concerned with the late butchery,
and that all else should be sold. And so from the Heraion streamed out
a long line of prisoners, whilst from other sides embassies arrived in
numbers; and amongst these a deputation from the Boeotians, anxious to
learn what they should do to obtain peace. These latter Agesilaus,
with a certain loftiness of manner, affected not even to see, although
Pharax, (6) their proxenus, stood by their side to introduce the