History of the Peloponnesian War

The number of the Plataeans that perished was not less than two hundred, and of the Athenians who had taken part in the siege twenty-five;

and the women were sold as slaves. As for the city itself, they gave occupation of it for about a year to some men of Megara who had been driven out in consequence of a sedition, and also to such of the surviving Plataeans as favoured the Lacedaemonian cause. Afterwards, however, they razed it entirely[*](Or, taking ἐκ τῶν θεμελίων with ψ)|κοδόμησαν, as Steup and others do, “they built on the old foundations.”) to the ground, and built, in the neighbourhood of the sanctuary of Hera, an inn two hundred feet square, with rooms all around, above and below, using for this purpose the roofs and doors of the Plataeans; and with the rest of the material inside the walls, articles of copper and iron, they fashioned couches, which they dedicated to Hera; and they also built for her a stone temple one hundred feet long.