. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . right into fragments, out-flanking it, moreover, and thereby turning the right of thewhole array. But no sooner did the Spartan centre, alreadyshaken, and their left, which had scarcely felt the enemy, seethe defeat of their right wing, than they turned also ; and theforces opposed to them assuming the offensive, gave them notime to rally. The confusion and rout became general alongthe whole front. The loss of the Spartans was prodigious,considering that there was no long flight or fierce pursuit. Diodorus sta
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . right into fragments, out-flanking it, moreover, and thereby turning the right of thewhole array. But no sooner did the Spartan centre, alreadyshaken, and their left, which had scarcely felt the enemy, seethe defeat of their right wing, than they turned also ; and theforces opposed to them assuming the offensive, gave them notime to rally. The confusion and rout became general alongthe whole front. The loss of the Spartans was prodigious,considering that there was no long flight or fierce pursuit. Diodorus states the loss of the Spartans at four thousand,and that of the Thebans about three hundred; but thesenumbers cannot be exactly relied on. At all events it was theseverest defeat ever as yet inflicted by one Hellenic nation onanother. Sparta never again recovered from the moral con-sequences of that overwhelming defeat, or recovered its stationamong the Hellenic nations, although it struggled stoutly forpre-eminence, and long maintained its independence.—H. % ^ %Ji J/-.
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