Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . d the left wing of the Lacedaemonians, anddrove them over the steep precipices on the opposiloside of Mt. Evas. Cleomenes, perceiving that theonly hope of retrieving the day was by the defeat 960 SELLASIA. of the Macedonians opposed to liim, led liis men outof tlie intrenchments and charged tlie Macedonianphalanx. The Lacedaemonians fought with greatbravery; but after many vain attempts to breakthrough the impenetrable mass of the phalanx, they?were entirely defeated, and of 6000 men only 200are said to have escaped from the field of ,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . d the left wing of the Lacedaemonians, anddrove them over the steep precipices on the opposiloside of Mt. Evas. Cleomenes, perceiving that theonly hope of retrieving the day was by the defeat 960 SELLASIA. of the Macedonians opposed to liim, led liis men outof tlie intrenchments and charged tlie Macedonianphalanx. The Lacedaemonians fought with greatbravery; but after many vain attempts to breakthrough the impenetrable mass of the phalanx, they?were entirely defeated, and of 6000 men only 200are said to have escaped from the field of , perceiving all was lost, escaped with a SELLASIA, few horsemen to Sparta, and from thence proceededto Gythium, where he embarked for Aegypt. An-tigonus, thus master of the passes, marched directlyto Sellasia, which be plundered and destroyed, andthen to Sparta, which submitted to him after aslight resistance. (Polyb. ii. 65—70; Plut. , 28. rhilop. 6; Paus. ii. 9. § 2, iii. 10. § 7, § 9, vii. 7. § 4, viii. 49. § 5.). PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF SELIASIA. nan. Troops of b b. Troops of A. Koad to Tegea. In the preceding account of the battle we havefollowed the excellent description of Ross. {Reisentin Peloponnes, ^. 181.) The French Commissionliad previously supposed the plain of Krevata to bethe site of the battle of Sellasia (Boblaye, Recher-ches, (.fc. p. 73); and the same opinion has beenadopted by Curtius. (^Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p, 260.)Leake, however, places Sellasia to the SE., near themonastery of the Forty Saints (A7101 Zapavra),and supposes the battle to Lave been fought in thepass to the eastward of the monastery. The ruinsnear the Khan of Krevata he maintains to be thoseofCaryae. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 529, Pelo-poimesiaca, p. 341, seq.) But Ross informs us thatin the narrow pass NE. of the monastery of theForty Saints there is barely room for a loaded muleto pass; and we know moreover that Sellasia was B B. Road to Argos.
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