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 234 LACEDAEMONIAN EXPEDITION TO CORCYRA [ill had released them from the obligations of the treaty, they again brought • up the Plataeans one after another, and asked each of them separately, Whether he had done any service to the Lacedaemonians and their allies in the war ? When he said No, they took him away and slew him ; no one was spared. They put to death not less than two hundred Plataeans, as well as twenty-five Athenians who had shared with them in the siege ; and made slaves of the women. For about a year the Thebans gave possession of the city to certain Megarians, who had been driven out by a revolution », and to any surviving Plataeans who were of their own party ; but they afterwards razed the whole place to the very foundations, and built near the precinct of Here an inn forming a square of two hundred feet ; it had two stories, and chambers all round. They used the roofs and the doors of the Plataeans; and of the brass and iron articles of furniture found within the walls they made couches, which they dedicated to Here ; they also built in her honour a stone temple a hundred feet long. The Plataean territory they converted into public land, and let it out for terms of ten years ; some of their own citizens occupied it. Throughout the whole affair the severity shown by the Lacedaemonians to the Plataeans was mainly promoted by a desire to gratify the Thebans, who seemed likely to be useful allies to them in the war ^•^- 519- then just beginning. Such was the fate of Plataea, which was overthrown in the ninety-third year after the Plataeans entered into alliance with Athens ^ ^9 The forty Peloponnesian ships which had been sent n, ^ ., ., to the aid of Lesbos, as they fled Return of Alaaas. ' j u u He and Brasidas make through the open sea pursued by the ready an expedition to Athenians ^, Were caught in a storm ^'^^^*'"- near Crete, and, making their way in a straggling condition from Crete to the Peloponnesus, found at Cyllene thirteen Leucadian and Ambraciot " Cp. iv. 66 init. '' Cp. Hcrod. vi. 108. « Cp. iii. 33.