§1.1Chabrias Atheniensis.
Chabrias of Athens.
hic quoque in summis habitus est ducibus resque multas memoria dignas gessit.
He too was numbered among the greatest generals and performed many deeds worthy of memory.
sed ex iis elucet maxime inventum eius in proelio, quod apud Thebas fecit, cum Boeotis subsidio venisset.
But among these, his invention shines out most brightly in the battle which he fought near Thebes, when he had come to the aid of the Boeotians.
§1.2namque in eo victoria fidentem summum ducem Agesilaum, fugatis iam ab eo conducticiis catervis, eo frustratus est, quod reliquam phalangem loco vetuit cedere obnixoque genu scuto, proiecta hasta impetum excipere hostium docuit.
For in that battle, he frustrated the supreme commander Agesilaus, who was confident of victory since the mercenary troops had already been routed by him, by forbidding the rest of the phalanx to retreat from their position, and teaching them to receive the enemy's charge with their knees pressed against their shields and their spears projected.
id novum Agesilaus contuens progredi non est ausus suosque iam incurrentes tuba revocavit.
Agesilaus, beholding this novel tactic, did not dare to advance, and recalled his men, who were already rushing forward, with the trumpet.
§1.3hoc usque eo tota Graecia fama celebratum est, ut illo statu Chabrias sibi statuam fieri voluerit, quae publice ei ab Atheniensibus in foro constituta est.
This deed was celebrated by fame throughout all Greece to such an extent that Chabrias wished a statue of himself to be made in that posture; and this was publicly erected for him by the Athenians in the forum.
ex quo factum est ut postea athletae ceterique artifices iis statibus in statuis ponendis uterentur, quibus victoriam essent adepti.
From this it came about that, thereafter, athletes and other performers, in erecting their statues, adopted those postures in which they had won their victory.