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The Plataeans, men of Athens, alone among the Greeks came to your
aid at Marathon1 when Datis, the general of King Dareius, on his
return from Eretria2 after subjugating Euboea, landed on our coast
with a large force and proceeded to ravage the country. And even to this day the
picture in the Painted Stoa3
exhibits the memorial of their valor; for each man is portrayed hastening to
your aid with all speed—they are the band wearing Boeotian caps.
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