Then the Thirty, knowing that the enemy would also gather plunder
								from the farms if there were no force to protect them, sent out all
								but a few of the Laconian guardsmen and two divisions of the cavalry
								to the outlying districts about fifteen stadia from Phyle. These
								troops made their camp in a bushy spot and proceeded to keep
								guard. Now by this time about seven hundred men were gathered at Phyle, and
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								guardsmen he had his troops ground their arms and keep quiet. Then when it was drawing towards day and the enemy were already
								getting up and going away from their camp whithersoever each one had
								to go, and the grooms were keeping up a hubbub as they curried their
								horses, at this moment Thrasybulus and his men picked up their arms
								and charged on the run. They struck down some of the enemy and
								turned them all to flight, pursuing them for six or seven stadia;
								and they killed more than one hundred and twenty of the hoplites,
								and among the cavalry Nicostratus, nicknamed the beautiful, and
								two more besides, catching them while still in their beds. Then after returning from the pursuit and erecting a trophy and
								packing up all the arms and baggage they had captured, they went
								back to Phyle. And when the cavalry from the city came to the
								rescue, there were none of the enemy left to be seen; so after
								waiting until their relatives had taken up the bodies of the dead,
								they returned to the city. After this the Thirty, deeming their
								government no longer secure, formed a plan to appropriate Eleusis,
								so as to have a place of refuge if it should prove necessary.
								Accordingly Critias and the rest of the Thirty, having issued orders
								to the cavalry to accompany them, went to Eleusis. There they held a
								review of the townspeople under guard of the cavalry, pretending
								that they wanted to know how numerous they were and how large an
								additional garrison they would require, and then ordered them all to
								register; and each man when he had registered had to pass out by the
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								on the shore on either side of the gate, and as each man passed out
								their servants bound him fast. And when all had thus been seized,
								they ordered Lysimachus, the cavalry commander, to take them to
								Athens and turn them over to the Eleven.