d Hellenotamiae were
appointed by the Athenians to collect and administer the contributions,
and that Delos was the treasury.

Such was the origin of the Confederacy of Delos. Soon after its
formation Aristides was succeeded in the command of the combined fleet
by Cimon, the son of Miltiades.

Pausanias, on his return to Sparta, seems to have been acquitted of any
definite charges; but he continued his correspondence with Persia, and
an accident at length afforded convincing proofs of his guilt. A
favourite slave, to whom he had intrusted a letter to the Persian
satrap at Sardis, observed with dismay that none of the messengers
employed in this service had ever returned. Moved by these fears, he
broke the seal and read the letter, and finding his suspicions of the
fate that awaited him confirmed, he carried the document to the ephors.
But in ancient states the testimony of a slave was always regarded with
suspicion. The ephors refused to believe the evidence offered to them
unless confirmed by their own ears. For this purpose they directed him
to plant himself as a suppliant in a sacred grove near Cape Taenarus,
in a hut behind which two of their body might conceal themselves.
Pausanias, as they had expected, anxious at the step taken by his
slave, hastened to the spot to question him about it. The conversation
which ensued, and which was overheard by the ephors, rendered the guilt
of Pausanias no longer doubtful. They now determined to arrest him on
his return to Sparta. They met him in the street near the temple of
Athena Chalcioecus (of the Brazen House), when Pausanias, either
alarmed by his guilty conscience, or put on his guard by a secret
signal from one of the ephors, turned and fled to the temple, where he
took refuge in a small chamber belonging to the building. From this
sanctuary it was unlawful to drag him; but the ephors caused the doors
to be built up and the roof to be removed, and his own mother is said
to have placed the first stone at the doors. When at the point of
death from starvation, he was carried from the sanctuary before he
polluted it with his corpse. Such was the end of the victor of
Plataea. After his death proofs were discovered among his papers that
Themistocles was implicated in his guilt. But in order to follow the
fortunes of the Athenian statesman, it is necessary to take a glance at
the internal history of Athens.

The ancient rivalry between Themistocles and Aristides