§11.18.1ὁ δὲ Φιλοποίμην, ἐπιγνοὺς τὸν Μαχανίδαν ἀπό τε τῆς πορφυρίδος καὶ τοῦ περὶ τὸν ἵππον κόσμου, τοὺς μὲν περὶ τὸν Ἀναξίδαμον ἀπολείπει, παρακαλέσας τηρεῖν ἐπιμελῶς τὴν δίοδον καὶ μηδενὸς φείδεσθαι τῶν μισθοφόρων διὰ τὸ τούτους εἶναι τοὺς συναύξοντας αἰεὶ τὰς ἐν τῇ Σπάρτῃ τυραννίδας·
Philopoemen, recognizing Machanidas by his purple robe and the trappings of his horse, left Anaxidamus and his men behind, urging them to guard the passage carefully and to spare none of the mercenaries, because these were the men who always helped to maintain the tyrannies in Sparta.
§11.18.2αὐτὸς δὲ παραλαβὼν Πολύαινον τὸν Κυπαρισσέα καὶ Σιμίαν, οἷς ἐχρῆτο τότε παρασπισταῖς, ἐκ τοῦ πέραν τῆς τάφρου τὴν ἀντιπαραγωγὴν ἐποιεῖτο τῷ τυράννῳ καὶ τοῖς μετʼ αὐτοῦ·
He himself, taking Polyaenus of Cyparissia and Simias, whom he then used as bodyguards, marched along on the opposite side of the trench, keeping parallel with the tyrant and those with him.
§11.18.3δύο γὰρ ἦσαν οἱ τότε τῷ Μαχανίδᾳ συμμίξαντες, Ἀρηξίδαμος καὶ τῶν μισθοφόρων εἷς.
For there were two who had then joined Machanidas, Arexidamus and one of the mercenaries.
§11.18.4ἅμα δὲ τῷ τὸν Μαχανίδαν κατά τινα τόπον εὔβατον τῆς τάφρου, προσθέντα τοὺς μύωπας, βίᾳ τὸν ἵππον ἐπάγειν καὶ διαπερᾶν, συναγαγὼν ἐκ μεταβολῆς ὁ Φιλοποίμην αὐτῷ καὶ πατάξας τῷ δόρατι καιρίως, καὶ προσενεγκὼν τῷ σαυρωτῆρι πληγὴν ἄλλην ἐκ διαλήψεως, ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ διέφθειρε τὸν τύραννον.
And at the moment when Machanidas, spurring his horse at a passable spot in the trench, was forcing him to leap and cross over, Philopoemen wheeled round to face him, struck him a mortal blow with his spear, and then, after an interval, dealt him another blow with the spike at the butt-end of it, slaying the tyrant in hand-to-hand combat.
§11.18.5τὸ δὲ παραπλήσιον ἐγίνετο καὶ περὶ τὸν Ἀρηξίδαμον ὑπὸ τῶν παρίππων.
A similar fate befell Arexidamus at the hands of those who rode beside Philopoemen.
ὁ δὲ τρίτος ἀπογνοὺς τὴν διάβασιν διέφυγε τὸν κίνδυνον κατὰ τὸν τῶν προειρημένων φόνον.
But the third man, giving up the idea of crossing, escaped the danger while the others were being slain.
§11.18.6πεσόντων δʼ ἀμφοτέρων, εὐθέως οἱ περὶ τὸν Σιμίαν, σκυλεύσαντες τοὺς νεκροὺς καὶ συναφελόντες ἅμα τοῖς ὅπλοις τὴν τοῦ τυράννου κεφαλήν, ἠπείγοντο πρὸς τοὺς διώκοντας, §11.18.7σπεύδοντες ἐπιδεῖξαι τοῖς ὄχλοις τὴν ἀπώλειαν τοῦ τῶν ὑπεναντίων ἡγεμόνος χάριν τοῦ πιστεύσαντας ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀνυπόπτως καὶ τεθαρρηκότως ποιήσασθαι τὸν ἐπιδιωγμὸν τῶν ὑπεναντίων ἕως τῆς Τεγεατῶν πόλεως.
When both had fallen, Simias and his companions immediately despoiled the corpses, and cutting off the tyrant's head along with his arms, they hastened to join those who were pursuing, being anxious to show the multitude the death of the enemy's leader, so that, being fully convinced, they might carry on the pursuit of the enemy even more unhesitatingly and boldly as far as the city of the Tegeans.
§11.18.8ὃ καὶ μεγάλα συνεβάλετο πρὸς τὴν ὁρμὴν τῶν ὄχλων· οὐ γὰρ ἥκιστα διὰ τούτων τῆς μὲν Τεγέας ἐξ ἐφόδου κύριοι κατέστησαν, ταῖς δʼ ἐχομέναις παρὰ τὸν Εὐρώταν ἐστρατοπέδευον, κρατοῦντες ἤδη τῶν ὑπαίθρων ἀναμφισβητήτως.
And this contributed greatly to the ardor of the multitude; for chiefly owing to this they made themselves masters of Tegea at the first assault, and on the following days they encamped along the Eurotas, being now indisputably masters of the open country.
§11.18.9καὶ πολλῶν χρόνων οὐ δυνάμενοι τοὺς πολεμίους ἐκ τῆς οἰκείας ἀπώσασθαι, τότε πᾶσαν ἀδεῶς ἐπόρθουν αὐτοὶ τὴν Λακωνικήν, §11.18.10τῶν μὲν ἰδίων οὐ πολλοὺς ἀπολωλεκότες ἐν τῇ μάχῃ, τῶν δὲ Λακεδαιμονίων ἀπεκτακότες μὲν οὐκ ἐλάττους τῶν τετρακισχιλίων, ζωγρίᾳ δʼ εἰληφότες ἔτι πλείους τούτων, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῆς ἀποσκευῆς κεκυριευκότες ἁπάσης καὶ τῶν ὅπλων.
And though for many years they had been unable to drive the enemy from their own territory, they now plundered the whole of Laconia without fear, having lost but few of their own men in the battle, while they had killed not less than four thousand of the Lacedaemonians, and taken even more than that number prisoners, as well as becoming masters of all their baggage and arms.