Book 2
4.5
But the greater number, those who had kept more together than the others, rushed into a large building abutting uponOr, as most MSS. read, a large building . . . whose doors near by happened to be open; with Didot and Haase, a large building near the wall whose doors ... the wall whose doors happened to be open, thinking that the doors of the building were city-gates and that there was a passage right through to the outside.
4.6
And the Plataeans, seeing that they were cut off, began to deliberate whether they should set fire to the building and burn them up without more ado or what other disposition they should make of them.
4.7
But finally these and the other Thebans who survived and were wandering up and down the city came to an agreement with the Plataeans to surrender themselves and their arms, to be dealt with in any way the Plataeans wished.
4.8
The Thebans in Plataea had fared thus;
5.1
but the main body of the Thebans, who were to have come in full force while it was still night, on the chance that things might not go well with those who had entered the city, received while on the way news of what had happened and were now hastening to the rescue.
5.2
Now Plataea is about seventy stadia distant from Thebes, and the rain that had come on during the night delayed their coming; for the river Asopus was running high and was not easy to cross.
5.3
And so, marching in the rain and crossing the river with difficulty, they arrived too late, some of their men having already been slain and others taken captive alive.
5.4
And when the Thebans learned what had happened, they began to plot against the Plataeans who were outside the city—there were, of course, men in the fields and household property, as the trouble had come unexpectedly in time of peace—for they desired to have such men as they could lay hands on as hostages for those within, in case any of them had chanced to be taken captive. Such then were their plans;
