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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...Whatever gold, silver, or troops he might need for the purpose should be his. However, Pausanias behaved in a very unwise manner, and his freaks so disgusted the allies that they could put up with him no longer. The Spartans found it absolutely necessary to recall him, and sent out another Spartan, Dorcis by name, to take his place. Pausanias on reaching Sparta was tried for the offences of which he was accused. But he was of the blood royal, and more positive proofs than could as yet be found were needed to convict him of treason. An accident supplied them. He continued his correspondence with the Great King, and in the course of it gave one of his letters to a certain Helot to take to a certain Persian grandee. Now this Helot was a shrewd man, and he noticed that not one of the former messengers sent to deliver the letters of Pausanias had returned. So he made free to open the letter, and found, as he had thought, that it contained a request to the Persian to put the bearer to death. It also contained the clearest proofs of treachery. The Helot took the letter to the ephors. Even then with the letter to back up his word, they refused to believe him; but they planned to hear Pausanias proclaim his own guilt in their hearing. Nothing short of this would satisfy them. The Helot was to take refuge in a sacred place, and there build himself a hut, with a wall dividing it into two parts, in one of which some of the ephors hid themselves. For they felt sure that Pausanias would come to him there. Nor were they wrong. He went to the hut, and the ephors heard enough to make his guilt evident. Soon after they met him in the street, when one of them, a friend of his, made him a sign, to let him see that all was known. Pausanias caught its meaning and...

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