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[2] Having first slain in their own houses those who favoured the Lacedaemonian cause, whom they surprised while still asleep,1 they next rallied the citizens to the cause of freedom and obtained the co-operation of all the Thebans. When the populace had quickly assembled under arms, at daybreak they attempted to assault the Cadmeia.

1 Fuller accounts are found in Xen. Hell. 5.4.2-12; Nepos Pelopidas 3; Plut. Pelopidas 7-12 and Plut. De Genio Socratis 596. Criticism of these accounts in von Stern, Gesch. d. spartan. u. theban. Hegemonie, 44 ff. Beloch, Griechische Geschichte （2）, 3.2.234, gives the date as December 379.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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