ed
at the request of the Eginetans by Cleades the son of Autodicos, a man
of Plataia who was their public guest-friend, 95 no less than ten years
after these events.

86. When the Hellenes had buried their dead at Plataia, forthwith they
determined in common council to march upon Thebes and to ask the Thebans
to surrender those who had taken the side of the Medes, and among the
first of them Timagenides and Attaginos, who were leaders equal to the
first; and if the Thebans did not give them up, they determined not to
retire from the city until they had taken it. Having thus resolved,
they came accordingly on the eleventh day after the battle and began to
besiege the Thebans, bidding them give the men up: and as the Thebans
refused to give them up, they began to lay waste their land and also to
attack their wall..

87. So then, as they did not cease their ravages, on the twentieth day
Timagenides spoke as follows to the Thebans: "Thebans, since it has been
resolved by the Hellenes not to retire from the siege until either they
have taken Thebes or ye have delivered us up to them, now therefore let
not the land of Boeotia suffer 96 any more for our sakes, but if they
desire to have money and are demanding our surrender as a colour for
this, let us give them money taken out of the treasury of the State;
for we took the side of the Medes together with the State and not by
ourselves alone: but if they are making the siege truly in order to get
us into their hands, then we will give ourselves up for trial." 97 In
this it was thought that he spoke very well and seasonably, and the
Thebans forthwith sent a herald to Pausanias offering to deliver up the
men..

88. After they had made an agreement on these terms, Attaginos escaped
out of the city; and when his sons were delivered up to Pausanias, he
released them from the charge, saying that the sons had no share in
the guilt of taking the side of the Medes. As to the other men whom the
Thebans delivered up, they supposed that they would get a trial, 98
and they trusted moreover to be able to repel the danger by payment of
money; but Pausanias, when he had received them, suspecting this very
thing, first dismissed the whole army of allies, and then took the men
to Corinth and put them to death there. These were the things which
happened at Plataia and at Thebes.

89. Artabazos meanwhile, the son of Pharnakes, in his flight
from Plataia was by this time getting forward on his