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In the great battle, which they fought with the Aetolians and Eleans by the river Larissus, he set them an example himself. Damophantus, general of the Elean horse, singled out Philopoemen, and rode with full speed at him. Philopoemen awaited his charge, and, before receiving the stroke, with a violent blow of his spear threw him dead to the ground: upon whose fall the enemy fled immediately.
Setting out from Dymae, and uniting their forces, they passed the river Larissus, which separates the Elean from the Dymaean territory. The first day on which they entered upon the enemy's confines, they employed in plundering.
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