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52.
About the same time in this summer, the
Plataean being now without provisions, and unable to support the siege,
surrendered to the Peloponnesians in the following manner.
[2]
An assault had been made upon the wall, which the Plataeans were unable to
repel.
The Lacedaemonian commander, perceiving their weakness, wished to avoid
taking the place by storm; his instructions from Lacedaemon having been so conceived, in order that if
at any future time peace should be made with Athens, and they should agree
each to restore the places that they had taken in the war, Plataea might be
held to have come over voluntarily, and not be included in the list.
He accordingly sent a herald to them to ask if they were willing
voluntarily to surrender the town to the Lacedaemonians, and accept them as
their judges, upon the understanding that the guilty should be punished, but
no one without form of law.
[3]
The Plataeans were now in the last state of weakness, and the herald had no
sooner delivered his message than they surrendered the town.
The Peloponnesians fed them for some days until the judges from Lacedaemon,
who were five in number, arrived.
[4]
Upon their arrival no charge was preferred; they simply called up the Plataeans, and asked them whether they had done
the Lacedaemonians and allies any service in the war then raging.
[5]
The Plataeans asked leave to speak at greater length, and deputed two of
their number to represent them;, Astymachus, son of Asopolaus, and Lacon,
son of Aeimnestus, Proxenus of the Lacedaemonians, who came forward and
spoke as follows:—
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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