Non tamen omisere Lacedaemonii pugnam et, ut primum sibi quam hosti aequiorem locum capere potuerunt, densatis ordinibus effuse fluentem in se  aciem excepere.
Yet the Lacedaemonians did not give up the fight, but as soon as they could gain ground more favourable to themselves than to the enemy, they took close order and met their line of battle as it poured  like a flood upon them.
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