Euripidas
About the same time Euripidas, who had been sent
out to act as general to the Eleans, after
overrunning the districts of Dyme, Pharae,
and Tritaea, and collecting a considerable amount of
booty, was marching back to Elis. But Miccus of Dyme,
who happened at the time to be Sub-strategus of the
Achaean league, went out to the rescue with a body of
Dymaeans, Pharaeans, and Tritaeans, and attacked him as he
was returning. But proceeding too precipitately, he fell into
an ambush and lost a large number of his men: for forty of
his infantry were killed and about two hundred taken prisoners.
Elated by this success, Euripidas a few days afterwards made
another expedition, and seized a fort belonging to the Dymaeans
on the river Araxus, standing in an excellent situation, and
called the Wall, which the myths affirm to have been anciently
built by Hercules, when at war with the Eleans, as a base of
operations against them.
