Demosthenes, Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 94

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[94] The Plataeans, men of Athens, alone among the Greeks came to your aid at Marathon¹ when Datis, the general of King Dareius, on his return from Eretria² after subjugating Euboea, landed on our coast with a large force and proceeded to ravage the country. And even to this day the picture in the Painted Stoa³ exhibits the memorial of their valor; for each man is portrayed hastening to your aid with all speed—they are the band wearing Boeotian caps.

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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κατὰ Νεαίρας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 94 focus

[94] Πλαταιῆς γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, μόνοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὑμῖν ἐβοήθησαν Μαραθῶνάδε, ὅτε Δᾶτις ὁ βασιλέως Δαρείου στρατηγὸς ἀναχωρῶν ἐξ Ἐρετρίας Εὔβοιαν ὑφʼ ἑαυτῷ ποιησάμενος, ἀπέβη εἰς τὴν χώραν πολλῇ δυνάμει καὶ ἐπόρθει. καὶ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τῆς ἀνδραγαθίας αὐτῶν ὑπομνήματα ἡ ἐν τῇ ποικίλῃ στοᾷ γραφὴ δεδήλωκεν· ὡς ἕκαστος γὰρ τάχους εἶχεν, εὐθὺς προσβοηθῶν γέγραπται, οἱ τὰς κυνᾶς τὰς Βοιωτίας ἔχοντες.

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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

1. This was in 490 B.C.

2. A town in Euboea across the strait from Attica.

3. See note a on Dem. 45.17 .

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