and although they routed the light troops wherever they ran up and approached too closely, yet they retreated fighting, being lightly equipped, and easily getting the start in their flight, from the difficult and rugged nature of the ground, in an island hitherto desert, over which the Lacedaemonians could not pursue them with their heavy armour.
Kontua da ezin izan zutela hoplitekin hartu-eman fisikorik lortu, ezta beren ezagutza militarrez baliatu ere, tropa arinek albo bietatik egindako jaurtiketez galarazten zietelako, eta gainera hoplitak ez ziren etorri eurengana, zirkinik egin gabe geratu baitziren.