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Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 2.1 2.2 – 2.4 2.5 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.4 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.4 7.1 – 7.2 7.3 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.3 8.4 – 8.5 9.1 – 9.2 9.3 – 9.4 9.5 – 9.7 10.1 – 10.2 10.3 – 11.1 11.2 – 11.4 11.5 – 12.1 12.2 – 12.4 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 15.1 – 15.3 15.4 – 16.2 16.3 – 16.4 16.5 – 17.2 17.3 – 17.5 17.6 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.4 18.5 – 19.2 19.3 – 20.1 20.2 – 20.3 20.4 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.3 21.4 – 22.2 23.1 – 23.3 23.4 – 24.2 24.3 – 24.5 25.1 – 25.3 25.4 – 25.5 25.6 – 25.7 26.1 – 26.3 26.4 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.4 27.5 – 28.1 28.2 – 28.4 28.5 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 30.5 – 30.6 30.7 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 31.4 – 32.2 32.3 – 32.5 32.6 – 33.1 33.2 – 33.4 33.5 – 34.2 34.3 – 35.1 35.2 – 35.4 35.5 – 35.7

İngilizce Yunanca

27.5 But just as he got there, Alexander the tyrant appeared before the city with his forces. Then Pelopidas and Ismenias, thinking that he was come to excuse himself for his conduct, went of their own accord to him, knowing, indeed, that he was an abandoned and blood-stained wretch, but expecting that because of Thebes and their own dignity and reputation they would suffer no harm.

27.6 But the tyrant, when he saw them coming up unarmed and unattended, straightway seized them and took possession of Pharsalus. By this step he awoke in all his subjects a shuddering fear; they thought that after an act of such boldness and iniquity he would spare nobody, and in all his dealings with men and affairs would act as one who now utterly despaired of his own life.

28.1 The Thebans, then, on hearing of this, were indignant, and sent out an army at once, although, since Epaminondas had somehow incurred their displeasure, they appointed other commanders for it. As for Pelopidas, after the tyrant had brought him back to Pherae, at first he suffered all who desired it to converse with him, thinking that his calamity had made him a pitiful and contemptible object;