Pausanias Description of Greece 1.15.1

[1] As one goes to the portico [ stoā] that they call painted [ poikilē], because of its paintings [ graphai], there is a bronze statue of Hermes of-the-Marketplace [ agoraios], and near it a gate [ pulē]. Placed over it [= the gate] is a trophy [ tropaion] erected by the Athenians, who in a cavalry action overcame Pleistarkhos, to whose command his brother Kassandros had entrusted his cavalry and mercenaries. This portico [ stoā] contains [wall paintings that represent], first, the Athenians arrayed against the Lacedaemonians at Oinoe in the Argive territory. What has been painted [ graphesthai] is not the critical-point [ akmē] of the struggle [ agōn] nor when the action [ ergon] had advanced as far as the display [ epideixis] of deeds of valor, but the beginning of the fight when the combatants were about to close in on each other.