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While these things were going on, the Plataeans in Boeotia, clinging to the alliance with the Athenians, sent to them for soldiers, having decided to hand their city over to the Athenians. At this the Boeotarchs1 became incensed with the Plataeans, and, being eager to forestall the allied force from Athens, immediately brought a considerable army against the Plataeans.2

1 Annual officials, eleven in number, of the Boeotian League. For reduction to seven see note on p. 91.

2 See also Xen. Hell. 6.3.1, 5; Isoc. 14; Paus 9.1.8, sets the fall of Plataeae in 373/2 when Asteius was archon.

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