Battle of Delium
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Delium (battle) · battle of Delium · the battle
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Vitae philosophorum
Battle at which Socrates rescued Xenophon.
and when in the battle of Delium Xenophon had fallen from his horse, he stepped in and saved his life.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The pitched battle between the Athenian and Boeotian armies near Delium, won by the Boeotians through the Theban right wing and Pagondas's flanking cavalry.
The Boeotians, after erecting a trophy, taking up their own dead, stripping those of the enemy, and leaving a guard over them, retired to Tanagra, and formed plans for assaulting Delium.
and when they were come from all the cities, and found the Athenians on their progress homeward, the rest of the Boeotarchs, (who were eleven in number,) not consenting to an engagement, since the Athenians were no longer in Boeotia, (for they were just within the borders of the Oropian territory when they halted,) Pagondas son of Aeoladas, being Boeotarch of Thebes together with Arianthidas son o …
but in one battle you will both gain possession of this land, and confirm the liberty of that.