ness of their discipline. Pausanias at this time was carrying on
a treasonable correspondence with the king of Persia, and treated the
allied Greek troops with harshness and wanton insolence, the offspring
of unlimited power. Kimon, on the other hand, punished offenders
leniently, treated all alike with kindness and condescension, and
became in all but name the chief of the Greek forces in Asia, a
position which he gained, not by force of arms, but by amiability of
character. Most of the allies transferred their allegiance to Kimon
and Aristeides, through disgust at the cruelty and arrogance of
Pausanias. There is a tradition that Pausanias when at Byzantium
became enamoured of Kleonike, the daughter of one of the leading
citizens there. He demanded that she should be brought to his chamber,
and her wretched parents dared not disobey the tyrant's order. From
feelings of modesty Kleonike entreated the attendants at the door of
his bedchamber to extinguish all the lights, and she then silently in
the darkness approached the bed where Pausanias lay asleep. But she
stumbled and overset the lamp.[307] He, awakened by the noise,
snatched up his dagger, and imagining that some enemy was coming to
assassinate him, stabbed the girl with it, wounding her mortally. It
is said that after this her spirit would never let Pausanias rest, but
nightly appeared to him, angrily reciting the verse--

"Go, meet thy doom; pride leadeth men to sin."

The conduct of Pausanias in this matter so enraged the allied Greeks
that, under Kimon's command, they besieged him in Byzantium, which
they took by assault. He, however, escaped, and, it is said, fled for
refuge to the oracle of the dead at Heraklea, where he called up the
soul of Kleonike and besought her to pardon him. She appeared, and
told him that if he went to Sparta he would soon be relieved of all
his troubles, an enigmatical sentence alluding, it is supposed, to his
approaching death there.

VII. Kimon, who was now commander-in-chief, sailed to Thrace, as he
heard that the Persians, led by certain nobles nearly related to
Xerxes himself, had captured the city of Eion on the river Strymon,
and were making war upon the neighbouring Greek cities. His first act
on landing was to defeat the Persians, and shut them up in the city.
He next drove away the Thracian tribes beyond the Strymon, who
supplied the garrison with provisions, and by carefully watching the
country round he reduced