Xenophon, Hellenica, Book 6, chapter 5, section 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.

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. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 1 and 2. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. vol. 1:1918; vol. 2: 1921.

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