**__Meine Ehre heißt Treue__**
"Tidings of the disaster were brought to Pausanias while he was on the march from Platea to Thespiae, and putting his army in battle array, he came from Thebes, leading his Athenians. But when Pausanias was minded to ask for the bodies of the dead under a truce, **THE ELDERS OF THE SPARTANS COULD NOT BROOK IT, AND WERE ANGRY AMONG THEMSELVES, AND COMING TO THE KING, THEY PROTESTED THAT THE BODY OF LYSANDER MUST NOT BE TAKEN UP UNDER COVER OF A TRUE, BUT BY FORCE OF ARMS, IN OPEN BATTLE FOR IT;** and that if they conquered, then they would give him burial, but if they were vanquished, **it would be a glorious thing to lie dead with their general. SUCH WERE THE WORDS of the elders;** but Pausanis saw that it would be a difficult matter to conquer the Thebans, flushed as they were with victory, and that the body of Lysander lay near the walls, so that its recovery would be difficult without a truce, even if they were victorious; he therefore sent a herald, and after making a truce, led his forces back. And as soon as they had come beyond the boundary of Boeotia with Lysander's body, they buried it in the friendly soil of their allies, the Panopeans, where his monument now stands, by the road leading from Delphi to Chaeroneia."
-- Lives, Plutarch: §: XXIX /PG: 315
