The Thirty Years' War

Theramenes was hated by both political extremes as the democrats suspected him actually being an oligarchy, and the oligarchs distrusted him as a democrat in disguise. The 30 sent 700 spartan hoplites and their one thousand athenian cavalrymen to the border about a mile and a half from phili. They camped in rough turrain near carni, where they kept watch and planned for second attack on the rebel camp. But thrasibulus would beat them to the punch. One evening in early may of four o three b c, he led his 700 troops down from phili to a position about 15 hundred feet from the enemy, where they halted