HERODOTUS

BOOK IX. 85-87their tombs are but empty barrows that they builtfor the sake of men that should come after, becausethey were ashamed to have been absent from thebattle. In truth there is one there that is calledthe tomb of the Aeginetans, which, as I have beentold, was built as late as ten years after, at theAegipetans' desire, by their patron and protectorCleades son of Autodicus, a Plataean.86. As soon as the Greeks had buried their deadat Plataeae, they resolved in council that they wouldmarch against Thebes and demand surrender ofthose who had taken the Persian part, but speciallyof Timagenidasand Attaginus, who were chief amongtheir foremost men and; that, if these men werenot delivered to them, they would not withdrawfrom before the city tillthey should have taken it.Being thus resolved, they came with this intent onthe eleventh day after the battle and laid siege tothe Thebans, demanding the surrender of the men ;and the Thebans refusing this surrender, they laidtheir lands waste and assaulted the walls.87. Seeing that the Greeks would not cease fromtheir harrying, when nineteen days were past,Timagenidas thus spoke to the Thebans " Men of:Thebes, since the Greeks have so resolved that theywill not raise the siege till Thebes be taken or webe delivered to them, now let not the land of Boeotiaincrease the measure of its ills for our sake ; nay, ifit ismoney they desire and their demand for oursurrender is but a pretext, let us give them moneyout of our common treasury (for it was by thecommon will and not ours alone that we took thePersian part);but if they be besieging the town forno other cause save to have us, then we will give261