[4] So the rebuilding of the walls1 was directed by both these statesmen jointly, although they were at variance with one another; but the secession of the Ionian states from the Lacedaemonian alliance was promoted by Aristeides, who seized the opportunity when the Lacedaemonians were discredited because of Pausanias.
1 The city fortifications were rebuilt, the harbor of Peiraeus completed and the Long Walls built to link Peiraeus and Phalerum with the city.