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58.
Still, in the name of the gods who once
presided over our confederacy, and of our own good service in the Hellenic
cause, we adjure you to relent; to recall the decision which we fear that the Thebans may have obtained
from you; to ask back the gift that you have given them, that they disgrace not you
by slaying us; to gain a pure instead of a guilty gratitude, and not to gratify others to
be yourselves rewarded with shame.
[2]
Our lives may be quickly taken, but it will be a heavy task to wipe away
the infamy of the deed; as we are no enemies whom you might justly punish, but friends forced into
taking arms against you.
[3]
To grant us our lives would be, therefore, a righteous judgment; if you consider also that we are prisoners who surrendered of their own
accord, stretching out our hands for quarter, whose slaughter Hellenic law
forbids, and who besides were always your benefactors.
[4]
Look at the sepulchres of your fathers, slain by the Medes and buried in
our country, whom year by year we honored with garments and all other dues,
and the first fruits of all that our land produced in their season, as
friends from a friendly country and allies to our old companions in arms!
Should you not decide aright, your conduct would be the very opposite to
ours.
Consider only:
[5]
Pausanias buried them thinking that he was laying them in friendly ground
and among men as friendly; but you, if you kill us and make the Plataean territory Theban, will leave
your fathers and kinsmen in, a hostile soil and among their murderers,
deprived of the honors which they now enjoy.
What is more, you will enslave the land in which the freedom of the
Hellenes was won, make desolate the temples of the gods to whom they prayed
before they overcame the Medes, and take away your ancestral sacrifices from
those who founded and instituted them.
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- LSJ, Πλα^ταιὶς
- LSJ, Θηβα_ΐς
- LSJ, ἄδεια
- LSJ, ἄτι_μ-ος
- LSJ, ἀφαιρ-έω
- LSJ, ἀφα^ν-ίζω
- LSJ, ἀναδίδωμι
- LSJ, ἀνταπαιτέω
- LSJ, ἀντιλαμβάνω
- LSJ, ἀπαρχή
- LSJ, ἀπο-βλέπω
- LSJ, ἀρετή
- LSJ, αὐθέντ-ης
- LSJ, δύσ-κλεια
- LSJ, ἔσθ-ημα
- LSJ, ἐπίπον-ος
- LSJ, ἐπιφέρω
- LSJ, ἐρημ-όω
- LSJ, εὔχομαι
- LSJ, γέρα^ς
- LSJ, ἵζω
- LSJ, ἴσχω
- LSJ, κάμπτω
- LSJ, κα^κία
- LSJ, καταλείπω
- LSJ, νόμ-ιμος
- LSJ, ὅμαιχμ-ος
- LSJ, προΐσχω
- LSJ, προνοέω
- LSJ, συμμα^χ-ικός
- LSJ, τι_μάω
- LSJ, τι_μωρ-έω
- LSJ, τοιοῦτος
- LSJ, ὡραῖος
- LSJ, χάρις
- LSJ, χείρ
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