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72.
The Plataeans had got thus far when they were
cut short by Archidamus saying, ‘There is justice, Plataeans, in
what you say, if you act up to your words.
According to the grant of Pausanias, continue to be independent yourselves,
and join in freeing those of your fellow-countrymen who, after sharing in
the perils of that period, joined in the oaths to you, and are now subject
to the Athenians; for it is to free them and the rest that all this provision and war has
been made.
I could wish that you would share our labors and abide by the oaths
yourselves; if this is impossible, do what we have already required of
you—remain neutral, enjoying your own; join neither side, but receive both as friends, neither as allies for the
war.
With this we shall be satisfied.’
[2]
Such were the words of Archidamus.
The Plataeans, after hearing what he had to say, went into the city and
acquainted the people with what had passed, and presently returned for
answer that it was impossible for them to do what he proposed without
consulting the Athenians, with whom their children and wives now were; besides which they had their fears for the town.
After his departure, what was to prevent the Athenians from coming and
taking it out of their hands, or the Thebans, who would be included in the
oaths, from taking advantage of the proposed neutrality to make a second
attempt to seize the city?
[3]
Upon these points he tried to reassure them by saying: ‘You have
only to deliver over the city and houses to us Lacedaemonians, to point out
the boundaries of your land, the number of your fruit-trees, and whatever
else can be numerically stated, and yourselves to withdraw wherever you like
as long as the war shall last.
When it is over we will restore to you whatever we received, and in the
interim hold it in trust and keep it in cultivation, paying you a sufficient
allowance.’
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- LSJ, ἔνορκ-ος
- LSJ, ἔρχομαι
- LSJ, ἐργάζομαι
- LSJ, μεταχωρ-έω
- LSJ, παρακατα-θήκη
- LSJ, προκαλ-έω
- LSJ, συνελευθερόω
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