The Plataeans, men of Athens, alone among the Greeks came to your aid at MarathonThis was in 490 B.C. when Datis, the general of King Dareius, on his return from EretriaA town in Euboea across the strait from Attica. after subjugating Euboea, landed on our coast with a large force and proceeded to ravage the country. And even to this day the picture in the Painted StoaSee note a on Dem. 45.17. exhibits the memorial of their valor; for each man is portrayed hastening to your aid with all speed—they are the band wearing Boeotian caps.