n accordance with this suggestion
Archidamus marched out with a body of the city troops and seized
Cromnus. (18) Here he left a garrison--three out of the twelve regiments
(19)--and so withdrew homewards. The Arcadians had just ended their
Eleian campaign, and, without disbanding their levies, hastened to the
rescue, surrounded Cromnus with a double line of trenches, and having
so secured their position, proceeded to lay siege to those inside the
place. The city of Lacedaemon, annoyed at the siege of their citizens,
sent out an army, again under Archidamus, who, when he had come, set
about ravaging Arcadia to the best of his power, as also the Sciritid,
and did all he could to draw off, if possible, the besieging army. The
Arcadians, for all that, were not one whit the more to be stirred: they
seemed callous to all his proceedings.

(16) See Grote, "H. G." x. 429 foll.; al. B.C. 364.

(17) The port town of Elis.

(18) Cromnus, a township near Megalopolis. See Callisthenes, ap.
Athen. 10, p. 452 A. See Schneider's note ad loc.

(19) Lit. "lochi." See Arnold's note to Thuc. v. 68; below, VII. v.
10.

Presently espying a certain rising ground, across which the Arcadians
had drawn their outer line of circumvallation, Archidamus proposed
to himself to take it. If he were once in command of that knoll, the
besiegers at its foot would be forced to retire. Accordingly he set
about leading a body of troops round to the point in question, and
during this movement the light infantry in advance of Archidamus,
advancing at the double, caught sight of the Arcadian Eparitoi (20)
outside the stockade and attacked them, while the cavalry made an
attempt to enforce their attack simultaneously. The Arcadians did not
swerve: in compact order they waited impassively. The Lacedaemonians
charged a second time: a second time they swerved not, but on the
contrary began advancing. Then, as the hoarse roar and shouting
deepened, Archidamus himself advanced in support of his troops. To do
so he turned aside along the carriage-road leading to Cromnus, and moved
onward in column two abreast, (21) which was his natural order. When
they came into close proximity to one another--Archidamus's troops in
column, seeing they were marching along a road; the Arcadians in compact
order with shields interlinked--at this conjuncture the Lacedaemonians
were not able to hold out for any length of time against the numbers of
the Arcadians. Before