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As the captains from the Peloponnese were thus advising, there came
an Athenian to the camp, who brought word that the barbarians had
entered Attica, and were ravaging and burning everything. For the
division of the army under Xerxes was just arrived at Athens from its
march through Boeotia, where it had burnt Thespiae and Plataea -
both which cities were forsaken by their inhabitants, who had fled to
the Peloponnese - and now it was laying waste all the possessions of
the Athenians. Thespiae and Plataea had been burnt by the
Persians, because they knew from the Thebans that neither of those
cities had espoused their side.
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