§4.97.1καὶ οἱ Βοιωτοὶ τροπαῖον στήσαντες καὶ τοὺς ἑαυτῶν ἀνελόμενοι νεκροὺς τούς τε τῶν πολεμίων σκυλεύσαντες καὶ φυλακὴν καταλιπόντες ἀνεχώρησαν ἐς τὴν Τάναγραν, καὶ τῷ Δηλίῳ ἐπεβούλευον ὡς προσβαλοῦντες.
And the Boeotians, having erected a trophy, taken up their own dead, despoiled those of the enemy, and left a garrison, withdrew to Tanagra, and began to plan to attack Delium.
§4.97.2ἐκ δὲ τῶν Ἀθηναίων κῆρυξ πορευόμενος ἐπὶ τοὺς νεκροὺς ἀπαντᾷ κήρυκι Βοιωτῷ, ὃς αὐτὸν ἀποστρέψας καὶ εἰπὼν ὅτι οὐδὲν πράξει πρὶν ἂν αὐτὸς ἀναχωρήσῃ πάλιν, καταστὰς ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἔλεγε τὰ παρὰ τῶν Βοιωτῶν, ὅτι οὐ δικαίως δράσειαν παραβαίνοντες τὰ νόμιμα τῶν Ἑλλήνων·
From the Athenians, a herald proceeding for the dead met a Boeotian herald, who turned him back and told him that he would achieve nothing until he himself should return; and having presented himself before the Athenians, he delivered the message of the Boeotians, namely, that they had acted unjustly in transgressing the customs of the Greeks.
§4.97.3πᾶσι γὰρ εἶναι καθεστηκὸς ἰόντας ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλλήλων ἱερῶν τῶν ἐνόντων ἀπέχεσθαι, Ἀθηναίους δὲ Δήλιον τειχίσαντας ἐνοικεῖν, καὶ ὅσα ἄνθρωποι ἐν βεβήλῳ δρῶσι πάντα γίγνεσθαι αὐτόθι, ὕδωρ τε ὃ ἦν ἄψαυστον σφίσι πλὴν πρὸς τὰ ἱερὰ χέρνιβι χρῆσθαι, ἀνασπάσαντας ὑδρεύεσθαι·
For, he said, it was an established rule for all, when invading one another's territory, to keep their hands off the temples therein, whereas the Athenians had fortified Delium and were dwelling in it, and all things that men do in profane places were going on there; and they were drawing and using for common purposes the water which was untouched by them except to be used for lustral water in the sacrifices.
§4.97.4ὥστε ὑπέρ τε τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἑαυτῶν Βοιωτούς, ἐπικαλουμένους τοὺς ὁμωχέτας δαίμονας καὶ τὸν Ἀπόλλω, προαγορεύειν αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀπιόντας ἀποφέρεσθαι τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν.
Therefore, both on behalf of the god and of themselves, the Boeotians, calling to witness the gods of their common hearths and Apollo, warned them to depart from the sanctuary and take away what belonged to them.