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2.
The thirty years' truce which was entered
into after the conquest of Euboea lasted fourteen years.
In the fifteenth, in the forty-eighth year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis
at Argos, in the Ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two
of the Archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and six months after the battle
of Potidaea, just at the beginning of spring, a Theban force a little over
three hundred strong, under the command of their Boeotarchs, Pythangelus,
son of Phyleides, and Diemporus, son of Onetorides, about the first watch of
the night, made an armed entry into Plataea, a town of Boeotia in alliance
with Athens.
[2]
The gates were opened to them by a Plataean called Naucleides, who, with
his party, had invited them in, meaning to put to death the citizens of the
opposite party, bring over the city to Thebes, and thus obtain power for
themselves.
[3]
This was arranged through Eurymachus, son of Leontiades, a person of great
influence at Thebes.
For Plataea had always been at variance with Thebes; and the latter, foreseeing that war was at hand, wished to surprise her old
enemy in time of peace, before hostilities had actually broken out.
Indeed this was how they got in so easily without being observed, as no
guard had been posted.
[4]
After the soldiers had grounded arms in the marketplace, those who had
invited them in wished them to set to work at once and go to their enemies'
houses.
This, however, the Thebans refused to do, but determined to make a
conciliatory proclamation, and if possible to come to a friendly
understanding with the citizens.
Their herald accordingly invited any who wished to resume their old place
in the confederacy of their countrymen to ground arms with them, for they
thought that in this way the city would readily join them.
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