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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: retreated within their city, though, owing to the closeness of the
walls in their case, their loss was trifling. Teleutias claimed the
victory, and a trophy was duly erected, after which he turned his back
on Olynthus and devoted himself to felling the fruit-trees. This was
the campaign of the summer. He now dismissed both the Macedonians and
the cavalry force of Derdas. Incursions, however, on the part of the
Olynthians themselves against the states allied to Lacedaemon were
frequent; lands were pillaged, and people put to the sword.
III
B.C. 381. With the first symptoms of approaching spring the Olynthian
cavalry, six hundred strong, had swooped into the territory of
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