Isocrates, Plataicus, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 31

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[31] In what invasion into your country of all that have ever been made have they failed to take part? Who, more consistently than they, have been your enemies and ill-wishers? In the Decelean War¹ were they not authors of more mischief than the other invaders? When misfortune befell you,² did not they alone of the allies³ vote that your city should be reduced to slavery and its territory be abandoned to pasturage as was the plain of Crisa ,⁴

Plataicus. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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[31] ποίας γὰρ εἰσβολῆς ἀπελείφθησαν τῶν εἰς ταύτην τὴν χώραν γεγενημένων; ἢ τίνων οὐκ ἐχθίους ὑμῖν καὶ δυσμενέστεροι διετέλεσαν ὄντες; οὐκ ἐν τῷ Λεκελεικῷ πολέμῳ πλειόνων αἴτιοι κακῶν ἐγένοντο τῶν ἄλλων τῶν συνεισβαλόντων; οὐ δυστυχησάντων ὑμῶν μόνοι τῶν συμμάχων ἔθεντο τὴν ψῆφον, ὡς χρὴ τήν τε πόλιν ἐξανδραποδίσασθαι καὶ τὴν χώραν ἀνεῖναι μηλόβοτον ὥσπερ τὸ Κρισαῖον πεδίον;

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Plataicus

1. The Decelean War is the name given to the latter part ( 413-404 B.C.) of the Peloponnesian War when a Spartan force occupied the Attic post, Decelea, in 413 B.C.

2. A reference to the Athenian naval defeat at Aegospotami , in 405 B.C.

3. This is an exaggeration; not only the Thebans, but the Corinthians and other Peloponnesians, voted for the destruction of Athens, but Sparta refused; cf. Xen. Hell. 2.2.19-20 .

4. After the first Sacred War, at the end of the sixth century B.C., the plain of Crisa , between Delphi and the Corinthian Gulf, was declared holy ground and was dedicated to Apollo.

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