Plataea : ancient city in southern Boetia (Greece), below the modern village of Plataiai. It was the site of a Greek victory during the Greco-Persian Wars.
... unarmed struggle for liberty, overpasses its powers of endurance. It then becomes the sole choice either to break under the strain and go under or to throw it off with violence. The Spartan soldiers at Plataea endured for some time the missiles of the enemy and saw their comrades falling at their side without any reply because their general had not yet declared it to be the auspicious time for attack; but ...
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