Xenophon, Hellenica, Carleton L. Brownson (Translator), 6.5.46

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[46] I see also the Thebans, who then¹ did not succeed in persuading the Lacedaemonians to enslave you, now requesting you to allow those who saved you to perish.
It is truly a noble deed that is told of your ancestors, when they did not suffer those Argives who died at the Cadmea to go unburied;² but you would achieve a far nobler deed if you did not suffer those Lacedaemonians who still live either to incur insult or to perish.

Hellenica. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1921.

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Hellenica (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 1-2. Brownson, Carleton L., editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1918-1921.)

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Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Xenophon. Xenophontis Opera Omnia, Vol. 1. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900.) — 6.5.46 focus

[46] ὁρῶ δὲ καὶ Θηβαίους, οἳ τότε οὐκ ἔπεισαν Λακεδαιμονίους ἐξανδραποδίσασθαι ὑμᾶς, νῦν δεομένους ὑμῶν μὴ περιιδεῖν ἀπολομένους τοὺς σώσαντας ὑμᾶς. τῶν μὲν οὖν ὑμετέρων προγόνων καλὸν λέγεται, ὅτε τοὺς Ἀργείων τελευτήσαντας ἐπὶ τῇ Καδμείᾳ οὐκ εἴασαν ἀτάφους γενέσθαι· ὑμῖν δὲ πολὺ κάλλιον ἂν γένοιτο, εἰ τοὺς ἔτι ζῶντας Λακεδαιμονίων μήτε ὑβρισθῆναι μήτε ἀπολέσθαι ἐάσαιτε.

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Hellenica

1. See 35 above, and cp. note on iii. 13.

2. After the defeat of the legendary expedition of the Seven against Thebes it was only the intervention of the Athenians which compelled the Thebans to permit the burial of the enemy’s dead.

Xenophon Hellenica 6.5.46

Carleton L. Brownson (Translator)

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