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[5] As the slaughter mounted and every corner of the city was piled high with corpses, no one could have failed to pity the plight of the unfortunates. For even Greeks—Thespians, Plataeans and Orchomenians and some others hostile to the Thebans who had joined the king in the campaign1—invaded the city along with him and now demonstrated their own hatred amid the calamities of the unfortunate victims.

1 Justin 11.3.8 names Phocians, Plataeans, Thespians, and Orchomenians; Plut. Alexander 11.5 and Arrian. 1.8.8, Phocians and Plataeans only.

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