Histories

Upon the return of the envoys, an assembly was called and the oracle put before it. When the Thebans heard that they must entreat their “nearest,” they said, “If this is so, our nearest neighbors are the men of +Tanagra [23.6,38.3083] (Perseus) Tanagra and +Koroneia (deserted settlement), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Coronea and +Thespiai [23.166,38.283] (inhabited place), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Thespiae. These are always our comrades in battle and zealously wage our wars. What need, then, is there to entreat them? Perhaps this is the meaning of the oracle.”