Note 77 — THE SEVEN WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THEBES
E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation
The Hellenic feeling, such as the Platæans appealed to in the Peloponnesian war (Thuc. iii. 58, 59), that it was noble and right for Hellenes to destroy a city of the barbarians, but that they should spare one belonging to a people of their own stock.