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And again, when Xerxes came against Greece
and the Thebans went over to the side of the Medes, the Plataeans refused to
withdraw from their alliance with us, but, unsupported by any others of the
Boeotians, half of them arrayed themselves in Thermopylae against the advancing
barbarian together with the Lacedaemonians and Leonidas, and perished with them;
and the remainder embarked on your triremes, since they had no ships of their
own, and fought along with you in the naval battles at Artemisium1 and at Salamis.
1 Artemisiun, the northernmost promonotory of Euboea.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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