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After the battle the Boeotians launched assaults upon Delium and took the place by storm1; of the garrison of Delium the larger number died fighting gallantly and two hundred were taken prisoner; the rest fled for safety to the ships and were transported with the other refugees to Attica. Thus the Athenians, who devised a plot against the Boeotians, were involved in the disaster we have described.

1 A "flame-thrower" was used in the assault upon the walls; cp. Thuc. 4.100.

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