History of the Peloponnesian War

But the land they confiscated and leased for ten years, and the Thebans occupied it. Indeed it was almost wholly for the sake of the Thebans that the Lacedaemonians in all their dealings with the Plataeans showed themselves so thoroughly hostile to them, thinking that the Thebans would be serviceable in the war then just beginning.

Such was the fate of Plataea, in the ninety-third year after they became allies of Athens.[*](519 B.C.)