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- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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The detailed battle order and disposition of both the Lacedaemonian army with its allies and the opposing coalition of Argives, Mantineans, and Athenians are described before the battle.
τότε δὲ κέρας μὲν εὐώνυμον1 Σκιρῖται αὐτοῖς καθίσταντο, αἰεὶ ταύτην τὴν τάξιν μόνοι Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἔχοντες·2 παρὰ δ’ αὐτοὺς οἱ ἀπὸ Θρᾴκης Βρασίδειοι στρατιῶται καὶ νεοδαμώδεις μετ’ αὐτῶν· ἔπειτ’ ἤδη Λακεδαιμόνιοι αὐτοὶ ἑξῆς καθίστασαν τοὺς λόχους, καὶ παρ’ αὐτοὺς Ἀρκάδων Ἡραιῆς, μετὰ δὲ τούτους Μαινάλιοι, καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ δεξιῷ κέρᾳ Τεγεᾶται καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων ὀλίγοι τὸ ἔσχατον ἔχοντες, καὶ οἱ ἱππῆς αὐτῶν ἐφ’ ἑκατέρῳ τῷ κέρᾳ.
At that time, the Sciritae occupied their left wing, who alone of the Lacedaemonians always hold this position by themselves. Next to them were the soldiers of Brasidas from Thrace, and the Neodamodeis with them. Next to these, the Lacedaemonians themselves in succession drew up their regiments; and next to them were the Heraians of Arcadia, and after them the Maenalians, and on the right wing were the Tegeans and a few of the Lacedaemonians holding the extreme end, and their cavalry was on each of the wings.
Λακεδαιμόνιοι μὲν οὕτως ἐτάξαντο· οἱ δ’ ἐναντίοι αὐτοῖς δεξιὸν μὲν κέρας Μαντινῆς εἶχον, ὅτι ἐν τῇ ἐκείνων3 τὸ ἔργον ἐγίγνετο, παρὰ δ’ αὐτοὺς οἱ ξύμμαχοι Ἀρκάδων ἦσαν, ἔπειτα Ἀργείων οἱ χίλιοι λογάδες, οἷς ἡ πόλις ἐκ πολλοῦ ἄσκησιν τῶν ἐς τὸν πόλεμον δημοσίᾳ παρεῖχε, καὶ ἐχόμενοι αὐτῶν4 οἱ ἄλλοι Ἀργεῖοι, καὶ μετ’ αὐτοὺς οἱ ξύμμαχοι αὐτῶν, Κλεωναῖοι καὶ Ὀρνεᾶται, ἔπειτα Ἀθηναῖοι ἔσχατοι τὸ εὐώνυμον κέρας ἔχοντες, καὶ ἱππῆς μετ’ αὐτῶν οἱ οἰκεῖοι.
In this manner the Lacedaemonians drew themselves up. On the other hand, their opponents had the Mantineans holding the right wing, because the action was taking place in their territory; and next to them were the allies from Arcadia, then the thousand select troops of the Argives, for whom the state had for a long time provided military training at the public expense; next to them were the other Argives, and after them their allies, the Cleonaeans and Orneates; and then the Athenians held the extreme left wing, having their own cavalry with them.
- 5.67.1κέρας μὲν εὐώνυμον
Accusative of direction or position, functioning adverbially to mean 'on the left wing.' Alternatively, it can be taken as a predicative nominative with καθίσταντο ('were stationed as the left wing').
- 5.67.1μόνοι Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἔχοντες
The genitive Λακεδαιμονίων is a partitive genitive depending on μόνοι. The prepositional phrase ἐπὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν means 'by themselves, independently.' This whole participial clause acts as an appositive explanation to Σκιρῖται.
- 5.67.2ἐν τῇ ἐκείνων
The noun γῇ (land, territory) is omitted after the feminine definite article τῇ, meaning 'in their (the Mantineans') territory.'
- 5.67.2ἐχόμενοι αὐτῶν
The middle participle of ἔχω (ἔχομαι), governing the genitive αὐτῶν in the sense of 'clinging to' or 'next to/adjacent to.'