At daybreak Brasidas, perceiving that the Macedonians had gone on, and that the Illyrians and Arrhabaeus were on the point of attacking him, formed his heavy infantry into a square, with the light troops in the centre, and himself also prepared to retreat.
Gazteenak tropa ibiltari gisa jarri zituen etsaiek erasoa non jo, haraxe joateko, eta berak, berriz, atzeguardian, hautaturiko hirurehun soldadurekin, etsaien abangoardiaren erasoei aurre egin eta guztiei atzera eragiteko plana zeukan.