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[6] Thereupon the Thebans, having razed Plataeae completely, pillaged Thespiae1 as well, which was at odds with them. The Plataeans with their wives and children, having fled to Athens, received equality of civic rights2 as a mark of favour from the Athenian people.

Such was the state of affairs in Boeotia.

1 See chap. 51.3 and Xen. Hell. 6.3.1. Paus. 9.14 seems to place the destruction of Thespiae after the battle of Leuctra.

2 A privilege rarely accorded by the Athenians in these days. The democrats of Samos had been accorded this privilege near the close of the Peloponnesian War. The Plataeans had been granted citizenship in the same war and Meyer (Geschichte des Altertums, 5.399) contends that this still held. This grant of ἰσοπολιτεία seems not to have been of the Hellenistic type (W. S. Ferguson, Greek Imperialism, 31), by which the citizen of one state enjoyed certain privileges (cp. civitas sine suffragio) in another state during residence there.

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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