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61.
‘We should never have asked to make
this speech if the Plataeans on their side had contented themselves with
shortly answering the question, and had not turned round and made charges
against us, coupled with a long defence of themselves upon matters outside
the present inquiry and not even the subject of accusation, and with praise
of what no one finds fault with.
However, since they have done so, we must answer their charges and refute
their self-praise, in order that neither our bad name nor their good may
help them, but that you may hear the real truth on both points, and so
decide.
[2]
The origin of our quarrel was this.
We settled Plataea some time after the rest of Boeotia, together with other
places out of which we had driven the mixed population.
The Plataeans not choosing to recognize our supremacy, as had been first
arranged, but separating themselves from the rest of the Boeotians, and
proving traitors to their nationality, we used compulsion; upon which they went over to the Athenians, and with them did us much harm,
for which we retaliated.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.22
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.43
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.58
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), BOEOTARCHES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PLATAEA
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- LSJ, ἀντεῖπον
- LSJ, ἀντιπάσχω
- LSJ, ἀποκρίνω
- LSJ, ἀπολογ-ία
- LSJ, αἰτι-άομαι
- LSJ, ἐρωτ-άω
- LSJ, ἡγεμον-εύω
- LSJ, προσχωρ-έω
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