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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: Eurotas. The Thebans wherever they encamped at once formed a stockade
of the fruit-trees they had felled, as thickly piled as possible, and
so kept ever on their guard. The Arcadians did nothing of the sort.
They left their camping-ground and took themselves off to attack the
homesteads and loot. On the third or fourth day after their arrival
the cavalry advanced, squadron by squadron, as far as the
racecourse,[32] within the sacred enclosure of Gaiaochos. These
consisted of the entire Theban cavalry and the Eleians, with as many
of the Phocian or Thessalian or Locrian cavalry as were present. The
cavalry of the Lacedaemonians, looking a mere handful, were drawn up
to meet them. They had posted an ambuscade chosen from their heavy
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