Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Tearless Battle.

Fought B.C. 368, when a force of Arcadians endeavoured to cut off a Spartan army, under Archidamus, in a narrow defile in Laconia. They were repulsed with heavy loss, and not a single Spartan was killed, whence the engagement came to be called the Tearless Battle.