§33.15.1Androsthenes omnium ignarus Corintho profectus ad Nemeam — amnis est Corinthium et Sicyonium interfluens agrum castra locat. §33.15.2ibi partem dimidiam exercitus, divisam trifariam, et omnes equites discurrere ad depopulandos simul Pellenensem Sicyoniumque agros et Phliasium iubet. §33.15.3haec tria diversa agmina discessere.
Androsthenes, ignorant of everything, set out from Corinth and pitched camp at Nemea — this is a river flowing between the territory of Corinth and Sicyon. There he ordered half of his army, divided into three parts, and all the cavalry to disperse to plunder at the same time the territories of Pellene, Sicyon, and Phlius. These three different columns departed.
quod ubi Cleonas ad Nicostratum perlatum est, extemplo validam mercennariorum manum praemissam ad occupandum saltum, §33.15.4per quem transitus in Corinthium est agrum, ante signa equitibus, ut praegrederentur, locatis ipse confestim agmine duplici sequitur. §33.15.5parte una mercennarii milites ibant cum levi armatura, altera clipeati; id in illarum gentium exercitibus robur erat. §33.15.6iam haud procul castris aberant pedites equitesque et Thracum quidam in vagos palatosque per agros hostis impetum fecerant, cum repens terror castris infertur. §33.15.7trepidare dux, ut qui hostes nusquam nisi raros in collibus ante Sicyonem non audentis agmen demittere in campos vidisset, ab Cleonis quidem accessuros numquam credidisset. §33.15.8revocari tuba iubet vagos a castris dilapsos; ipse raptim capere arma iussis militibus infrequenti agmine porta egressus super flumen instruit aciem. §33.15.9ceterae copiae, vix conligi atque instrui cum potuissent, primum hostium impetum non tulerunt; §33.15.10Macedones et maxime omnium frequentes ad signa fuerant et diu ancipitem victoriae spem fecerunt; §33.15.11postremo fuga ceterorum nudati, cum duae iam acies hostium ex diverso, levis armatura ab latere, clipeati caetratique a fronte urgerent, et ipsi re inclinata primo rettulere pedem, §33.15.12deinde inpulsi terga vertunt et plerique abiectis armis, nulla spe castrorum tenendorum relicta, Corinthum petierunt. §33.15.13Nicostratus mercennariis militibus ad hos persequendos, equitibus Thracumque auxiliis in populatores agri Sicyonii missis magnam ibi quoque caedem edidit, maiorem prope quam in proelio ipso. §33.15.14ex iis quoque, qui Pellenen Phliuntaque depopulati erant, incompositi partim omniumque ignari ad castra revertentes in hostium stationes tamquam in suas inlati sunt, §33.15.15partim ex discursu id, quod erat, suspicati ita se in fugam passim sparserunt, ut ab ipsis agrestibus errantes circumvenirentur.
When this was reported from Cleonae to Nicostratus, he immediately sent ahead a strong force of mercenaries to occupy the pass, through which there is a passage into the Corinthian territory, and having stationed the cavalry in front of the standards so that they might lead the way, he himself immediately followed with a double column. On one side went the mercenary soldiers with light-armed troops, on the other the shielded ones; this was the strength in the armies of those nations. Now the infantry and cavalry were not far from the camp, and some of the Thracians had made an attack on the enemy who were scattered and wandering through the fields, when a sudden panic was brought upon the camp. The commander was in consternation, as one who had seen the enemy nowhere except in small numbers on the hills before Sicyon, not daring to bring down their column into the plains, and had never believed they would approach from Cleonae. He ordered the scattered plunderers to be recalled from the fields by trumpet; he himself, having ordered the soldiers to take up arms in haste, marched out through the gate with a thin column and drew up his battle line along the river. The rest of the forces, since they could hardly be assembled and drawn up, did not withstand the first onset of the enemy; the Macedonians both had been present at the standards in the greatest numbers of all and for a long time made the hope of victory doubtful; finally, exposed by the flight of the rest, since two battle lines of the enemy were now pressing from different directions, the light-armed from the side and the shielded and targeteers from the front, they too, as the situation declined, at first retreated, then, being hard pressed, turned their backs, and most of them, throwing away their arms, since no hope of holding the camp was left, made for Corinth. Nicostratus, having sent the mercenary soldiers to pursue these, and the cavalry and Thracian auxiliaries against the plunderers of the territory of Sicyon, wrought a great slaughter there also, almost greater than in the battle itself. Of those also who had plundered Pellene and Phlius, some returning to the camp in disorder and ignorant of everything were carried into the enemy's outposts as if into their own, others, suspecting the truth from the scattering, dispersed themselves in flight here and there, so that they were surrounded by the very peasants as they wandered about. There fell on that day fifteen hundred, and three hundred were captured.
§33.15.16ceciderunt eo die mille et quingenti, capti trecenti. Achaia omnis magno liberata metu.
All Achaea was freed from great fear.