History of the Peloponnesian War

But the greater number, those who had kept more together than the others, rushed into a large building abutting upon[*](Or, 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.

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.

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.

The Thebans in Plataea had fared thus;