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Now when Cleomenes heard that the Argives were acting thus, he
commanded his troops that, so soon as the herald gave the word for the
soldiers to go to dinner, they should instantly seize their arms and
charge the host of the enemy. Which the Lacedaemonians did
accordingly, and fell upon the Argives just as, following the
signal, they had begun their repast; whereby it came to pass that vast
numbers of the Argives were slain, while the rest, who were more than
they which died in the fight, were driven to take refuge in the grove
of Argus hard by, where they were surrounded, and watch kept upon them.
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