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So, when the Thebans had failed in their attempt and the
Plataeans had put to death those of their number whom they had taken alive in
the battle, the Lacedaemonians, without waiting now for any pretext, marched
against Plataea. They ordered all the Peloponnesians with the exception of the
Argives to send two-thirds of their armies from their several cities, and they
sent word to all the rest of the Boeotians and the Locrians and Phocians and
Malians and Oetaeans and Aenians to take the field with their entire
forces.1
1 All the states mentioned were in central Greece, and belonged to the Peloponnesian confederacy.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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