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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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While these things were going on, some partisans of the Lacedaemonians in Corcyra
revolted against the democracy and called upon the Spartans to dispatch a fleet, promising to
betray Corcyra to them. The Lacedaemonians, aware of the great importance that Corcyra had for
the aspirants to sea power, made haste to possess themselves of this city.1
[2]
So they immediately dispatched to Corcyra twenty-two triremes,
having given the command to Alcidas. They pretended that this expedition was sent to Sicily, in
order to be received as friends by the Corcyraeans and then with the assistance of the exiles
to occupy the city.
[3]
But the Corcyraeans, discovering the
design of the Spartans, kept careful guard over the city and sent envoys to Athens to get help.
The Athenians voted help for the Corcyraeans and the Zacynthian exiles, sent to Zacynthos
Ctesicles as general in command of the exiles, and prepared to dispatch a naval force to
Corcyra.
[4]
While these things
were going on, the Plataeans in Boeotia, clinging to the alliance with the Athenians, sent to
them for soldiers, having decided to hand their city over to the Athenians. At this the
Boeotarchs2 became incensed with the
Plataeans, and, being eager to forestall the allied force from Athens, immediately brought a
considerable army against the Plataeans.3
[5]
They reached the neighbourhood of Plataeae when the attack was
not expected, so that a large number of the Plataeans were arrested in the fields and carried
off by the cavalry, while the rest, who had escaped to the city, being helpless without any
allies, were forced to make a covenant agreeable to their enemies; they were obliged, namely,
to depart from the city with their movable possessions and never again to set foot on Boeotian
soil.
[6]
Thereupon the Thebans, having razed Plataeae completely,
pillaged Thespiae4 as well, which was at
odds with them. The Plataeans with their wives and children, having fled to Athens, received
equality of civic rights5 as a mark of favour from the Athenian people.Such was the state of affairs in Boeotia.
1 As to the Lacedaemonian aggression see Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.77 and Xen. Hell. 6.2.4. Note the intervention of Dionysius in chap. 47.7.
2 Annual officials, eleven in number, of the Boeotian League. For reduction to seven see note on p. 91.
3 See also Xen. Hell. 6.3.1, 5; Isoc. 14; Paus 9.1.8, sets the fall of Plataeae in 373/2 when Asteius was archon.
4 See chap. 51.3 and Xen. Hell. 6.3.1. Paus. 9.14 seems to place the destruction of Thespiae after the battle of Leuctra.
5 A privilege rarely accorded by the Athenians in these days. The democrats of Samos had been accorded this privilege near the close of the Peloponnesian War. The Plataeans had been granted citizenship in the same war and Meyer (Geschichte des Altertums, 5.399) contends that this still held. This grant of ἰσοπολιτεία seems not to have been of the Hellenistic type (W. S. Ferguson, Greek Imperialism, 31), by which the citizen of one state enjoyed certain privileges (cp. civitas sine suffragio) in another state during residence there.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PLATAEA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), THE´SPIAE
- Smith's Bio, Ste'sicles
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- LSJ, ἰσοπολι_τ-εία
- LSJ, προσποι-έω
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