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3.
On becoming aware of the presence of the
Thebans within their gates, and of the sudden occupation of the town, the
Plataeans concluded in their alarm that more had entered than was really the
case, the night preventing their seeing them.
They accordingly came to terms, and accepting the proposal, made no
movement; especially as the Thebans offered none of them any violence.
[2]
But somehow or other, during the negotiations, they discovered the scanty
numbers of the Thebans, and decided that they could easily attack and
overpower them; the mass of the Plataeans being averse to revolting from Athens.
[3]
At all events they resolved to attempt it.
Digging through the party walls of the houses, they thus managed to join
each other without being seen going through the streets, in which they
placed wagons without the beasts in them, to serve as a barricade, and
arranged everything else as seemed convenient for the occasion.
[4]
When everything had been done that circumstances permitted, they watched
their opportunity and went out of their houses against the enemy.
It was still night, though daybreak was at hand: in daylight it was thought
that their attack would be met by men full of courage and on equal terms
with their assailants, while in darkness it would fall upon panic-stricken
troops, who would also be at a disadvantage from their enemy's knowledge of
the locality.
So they made their assault at once, and came to close quarters as quickly
as they could.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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