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71.
The next summer the Peloponnesians and their
allies, instead of invading Attica, marched against Plataea, under the
command of Archidamus, son of Zeuxidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians.
He had encamped his army and was about to lay waste the country, when the
Plataeans hastened to send envoys to him, and spoke as follows:
[2]
‘Archidamus and Lacedaemonians, in invading the Plataean
territory, you do what is wrong in itself, and worthy neither of yourselves
nor of the fathers who begot you.
Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, your countryman, after freeing Hellas from
the Medes with the help of those Hellenes who were willing to undertake the
risk of the battle fought near our city, offered sacrifice to Zeus the
Liberator in the market-place of Plataea, and calling all the allies
together restored to the Plataeans their city and territory, and declared it
independent and inviolate against aggression or conquest.
Should any such be attempted, the allies present were to help according to
their power.
[3]
Your fathers rewarded us thus for the courage and patriotism that we
displayed at that perilous epoch; but you do just the contrary, coming with our bitterest enemies, the
Thebans, to enslave us.
[4]
We appeal, therefore, to the gods to whom the oaths were then made, to the
gods of your ancestors, and lastly to those of our country, and call upon
you to refrain from violating our territory or transgressing the oaths, and
to let us live independent, as Pausanias decreed.’
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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