. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ated the left wing of the Lacedaemonians, anddrove them over the steep precipices on the oppositeside of Jit. Evas. Cleomenes, perceiving that theonly hope of retrieving the day was by the defeat 960 SELLASIA. of the Macedonians opposed to him, led liis men outof the intrenchments and charged the Macedonianphalanx. The Lacedaemonians fought with greatbravery; but after many vain attempts to breakthrough the impenetrable mass of the phalanx, theywere entirely defeated, and of 6000 men only 200are said to have escaped from the field of battle.(Jleomene
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ated the left wing of the Lacedaemonians, anddrove them over the steep precipices on the oppositeside of Jit. Evas. Cleomenes, perceiving that theonly hope of retrieving the day was by the defeat 960 SELLASIA. of the Macedonians opposed to him, led liis men outof the intrenchments and charged the Macedonianphalanx. The Lacedaemonians fought with greatbravery; but after many vain attempts to breakthrough the impenetrable mass of the phalanx, theywere entirely defeated, and of 6000 men only 200are said to have escaped from the field of battle.(Jleomenes, perceiving all was lost, escaped with a SELLASIA. few horsemen to Sparta, and from thence proceededto Gythium, where he embarked for Aigypt. An-tigonus, thus master of the passes, marched directlyto Sellasia, which he plundered and destroyed, andthen to Sparta, which submitted to him after aslight resistance. (Polyb. ii. 65—70; Plut. , 28. Philop. 6; Paus. ii. 9. § 2, lii. 10. § 7, § 9, vii. 7. § 4, viii. 49. § 5.). PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF SELLA8IA. ana. Troops of b b. Troops of A. Road to Tegea. In the preceding account of the battle we haYefollowed the excellent description of Pioss. (Reisenim Peloponnes, p. 181.) The French Commissionhad previously supposed the plain of Krevatd to bethe site of the battle of Sellasia (Boblaye, Recher-ches, tfc. p. 73); and the same opinion has beenadopted by Curtius. (Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p, 260.)Leake, however, places Sellasia to the near themonastery of the Forty Saints (A7101 ),and supposes the battle to have been fought in thepass to the eastward of the monastery. The ruinsnear the Khan of Krevatd he maintains to be thoseofCaryae. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 529, Pelo-ponnesiaca, 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; we know moreover that Sellasia was B B. Road to Argo
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