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Furthermore, it would be strange if, having spoken of these wrongs, I failed to mention their treatment of the Plataeans. It was on the soil of Plataea that the Lacedaemonians had encamped with us and with the other allies, drawn up for battle against our enemies;1 there they had offered sacrifices to the deities worshipped by the Plataeans;2
1 The battle of Plataea was the final, decisive battle of the Persian Wars.
2 See Thuc. 2.71-72.