A few days afterwards a battle was fought near Mantinea, in which Epaminondas had already routed the van of the Lacedaemonians, and was still eagerly pressing on in pursuit of them, when Anticrates, a Spartan, faced him and smote him with a spear, as Dioscorides tells the story;
Edition :
Plutarch Lives V: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 87), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1961 (first ed. 1917).
Remark :
thirdperson: The third group of third persons is Mantinean. weapon: After Dioscorides the weapon Anticrates used was a spear. According to the Laecedaemonians who lived at Plutarch's age the weapon was a sword. Plutarch gives both versions. (Plut. Ages. 35.1)
