and so long as the three hundred were alone they had much the worse and were about to abandon the body, but when the mass of the army came to their help, then the horsemen no longer sustained the fight, nor did they succeed in recovering the body;
Horrela, hirurehun gudariak beraiek bakarrik borrokatzen ari ziren bitartean, garbiki gaindituak izan ziren eta Masistioren gorpua laga behar izan zuten bertan behera;