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The Lacedaemonians, when they reached the Isthmus, pitched their
camp there; and the other Peloponnesians who had embraced the good
side, hearing or else seeing that they were upon the march, thought it
not right to remain behind when the Spartans were going forth to the
war. So the Peloponnesians went out in one body from the Isthmus,
the victims being favourable for setting forth; and marched as far as
Eleusis, where again they offered sacrifices, and, finding the omens
still encouraging, advanced further. At Eleusis they were joined by
the Athenians, who had come across from Salamis, and now accompanied
the main army. On reaching Erythrae in Boeotia, they learnt that
the barbarians were encamped upon the Asopus; wherefore they
themselves, after considering how they should act, disposed their
forces opposite to the enemy upon the slopes of Mount Cithaeron.
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