This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...difficulty only was to occur, or had already occurred, that bore such a semblance, and this again was due to what must be called another extravagance of Pausanias. He reappeared at Byzantium in a ship of Hermione, professedly to take part in the war, though without any public authorisation from Sparta, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...difficulty only was to occur, or had already occurred, that bore such a semblance, and this again was due to what must be called another extravagance of Pausanias. He reappeared at Byzantium in a ship of Hermione, professedly to take part in the war, though without any public authorisation from Sparta, and in reality with intention to proceed with his criminal intrigues. Between his personal authority with those who could not suspect him of treason, and his connections with the party which at Byzantium, as in Athens itself, would through rivalry or in consideration of bribes concur in such designs, he managed to establish himself in the city in such a position, that when the allies under the conduct of Cimon took the alarm, their ejection of him is expressed by phrases implying either direct violence or starving out. Plutarch, who does not here copy Thucydides, employs the same expression. He went off southwards, but only to fix himself at Colonae in the Troad, within easy reach of Artabazus, if not of Demaratus and Gongylus also. Information of his practices however went past him to Sparta, with no favourable account of his doings; and the ephors forthwith despatched the formal summons of a set/tale, bidding him return in company with the herald who bore it, and never quit him on pain of being accounted a national enemy. Unwilling to excite further suspicion, and in confidence that with the treasure at his command he could escape from existing charges by bribes, he returned a second time. On arrival he was placed in confinement, and retained there some time by the ephors, in the exercise of their independent authority even over a king, not to say a regent; and it was only by treating and management that he obtained a formal trial at an...
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