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To this judgment of the God himself the Athenians referred when they retorted on the
Lacedaemonians, telling them to banish the curse.
[2]
Now the evidence which proved that Pausanias was in league with Persia implicated
Themistocles;1 and the Lacedaemonians sent ambassadors to the Athenians charging him likewise
with treason,
and demanding that he should receive the same punishment.
[3]
The Athenians agreed, but having been ostracised he was living at the time in Argos,
whence he used to visit other parts of the Peloponnese.
The Lacedaemonians were very ready to join in the pursuit; so they and the Athenians
sent officers, who were told to arrest him wherever they should find him.
1 Themistocles is implicated in the plot, and officers are sent to take him.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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