[93] and there we had won freedom, not only for the Hellenes who fought with us, but also for those who were compelled to be on the side of the Persians,[90] and we accomplished this with the help of the Plataeans, who alone of the Boeotians fought with us in that war.[91] And yet, after no great interval of time, the Lacedaemonians, to gratify Thebes,[92] reduced the Plataeans by siege and put them all to the sword with the exception of those who had been able to escape through their lines.[93] Little did Athens resemble Sparta in the treatment of these peoples;