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[3] Accordingly some of the Greeks who were friendly to the Thebans sympathized with them at the prospect of defeat, while others who were at odds with them were overjoyed at the thought that Thebes would in a trice be reduced to utter slavery. Finally the Lacedaemonians, their huge army ready, gave command of it to Cleombrotus their king,1 and first of all sent envoys ahead to Thebes, directing the Thebans to permit all of the Boeotian cities to be independent, to people Plataeae and Thespiae,2 and to restore the land to its former owners.

1 Cleombrotus was already in Phocis (Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.80). He was sent there in 375/4 (Xen. Hell. 6.1.1, 2.1, 4.2). Beloch (3（2）. 2.236-237) thinks he was sent out afresh in 371.

2 See chap. 46.6.

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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