132.
Now the Spartans had no tangible proof
against him—neither his enemies nor the nation—of that
indubitable kind required for the punishment of a member of the royal
family, and at that moment in high office; he being regent for his first cousin King Pleistarchus, Leonidas' son, who
was still a minor.
But by his contempt of the laws and imitation of the barbarians,
[2]
he gave grounds for much suspicion of his being discontented with things
established; all the occasions on which he had in any way departed from the regular
customs were passed in review, and it was remembered that he had taken upon
himself to have inscribed on the tripod at Delphi, which was dedicated by
the Hellenes as the first-fruits of the spoil of the Medes, the following
couplet:—“
The Mede defeated, great Pausanias raised
This monument, that Phoebus might be praised.
”
[3]
At the time the Lacedaemonians had at once
erased the couplet, and inscribed the names of the cities that had aided in
the overthrow of the barbarian and dedicated the offering.
Yet it was considered that Pausanias had here been guilty of a grave
offence, which, interpreted by the light of the attitude which he had since
assumed, gained a new significance, and seemed to be quite in keeping with
his present schemes.
[4]
Besides, they were informed that he was even intriguing with the Helots; and such indeed was the fact, for he promised them freedom and citizenship
if they would join him in insurrection, and would help him to carry out his
plans to the end.
[5]
Even now, mistrusting the evidence even of the Helots themselves, the
Ephors would not consent to take any decided step against him; in accordance with their regular custom towards themselves, namely, to be
slow in taking any irrevocable resolve in the matter of a Spartan citizen,
without indisputable proof.
At last, it is said, the person who was going to carry to Artabazus the
last letter for the king, a man of Argilus, once the favorite and most
trusty servant of Pausanias, turned informer.
Alarmed by the reflection that none of the previous messengers had ever
returned, having counterfeited the seal, in order that, if he found himself
mistaken in his surmises, or if Pausanias should ask to make some
correction, he might not be discovered, he undid the letter, and found the
postscript that he had suspected, viz., an order to put him to death.
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