Medizing
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medizing · Atticizing · imitation of the barbarians · medism · medize · medized
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The Histories
The practice or accusation of collaborating with or submitting to the Persians ('the Medes'), a recurring charge against the Thebans.
Leonidas took pains to bring only the Thebans among the Hellenes, because they were accused of medizing;
The Thebans, whose general was Leontiades, fought against the king's army as long as they were with the Hellenes and under compulsion.
They were not, however, completely lucky.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The charge of having sided with the Persian invader during the Persian Wars, and its mirror charge of siding with Athens, central to the Theban-Plataean dispute.
With regard then to our involuntary Medizing, and your voluntary Atticizing, such are the proofs we have to offer.
"Again, when the barbarian came against Greece, they say that they were the only part of the Boeotians that did not Medize;
But we say that they did not Me- dize, because the Athenians did not either;