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As for us, since throughout our entire
history we have made it our practice in the case of good men to enhance their glory by means of
the words of praise we pronounce over them, and in the case of bad men, when they die, to utter
the appropriate obloquies, we shall not leave the turpitude and treachery of Pausanias to go
uncondemned. For who would not be amazed at the folly of this
man who, though he had been a benefactor of Greece,
had won the battle of Plataea, and had performed
many other deeds which won applause, not only failed to safeguard the esteem he enjoyed but by
his love of the wealth and luxury of the Persians brought dishonour upon the good name he
already possessed? Indeed, elated by his successes he came to
abhor the Laconian manner of life and to imitate the licentiousness and luxury of the Persians,
he who least of all had reason to emulate the customs of the barbarians; for he had not learned
of them from
In my opinion this action was in no way inferior to any
of the battles fought by the Athenians in former times; for neither the victory at Marathon nor
the success over the Persians at Plataea nor the
other renowned exploits of the Athenians seem in any way to surpass the victory which Myronides
won over the Boeotians. For of those other battles, some were
fought against barbarians and others were gained with the aid of allies, but this struggle was
won by the Athenians single-handed in pitched battle, and they were pitted against the bravest
warriors to be found among the Greeks. For in staunchness in
the face of perils and in the fierce contests of war the Boeotians are generally believed to be
surpassed by no other people; at any rate, sometime after this the Thebans at Leuctra and
Mantineia,In
371 and 362 B.C. respectively. when they unaided confronted
all the Lacedaemonians and their allies, won for themselves the high
About the same time the Lacedaemonians who were besieging Plataea threw a wall about the city and kept a guard over it
of many soldiers. And as the siege dragged on and the Athenians still sent them no help, the
besieged not only were suffering from lack of food but had also lost many of their fellow
citizens in the assaults. While they were thus at a loss and
were conferring together how they could be saved, the majority were of the opinion that they
should make no move, but the rest, some two hundred in number, decided to force a passage
through the guards by night and make their way to Athens. And so, on a moonless night for which
they had waited, they persuaded the rest of the Plataeans to make an assault upon one side of
the encircling wall; they themselves then made ready ladders, and when the enemy rushed to
defend the opposite parts of the walls, they managed by means of the ladders to get up on the
wall, and after slaying the