gent between him and the King, was yet just like the
mass of his servants to be rewarded with death. Admitting all this, and
telling him not to be angry about the matter, Pausanias gave him the
pledge of raising him up from the temple, and begged him to set off as
quickly as possible, and not to hinder the business in hand.

The ephors listened carefully, and then departed, taking no action for
the moment, but, having at last attained to certainty, were preparing
to arrest him in the city. It is reported that, as he was about to be
arrested in the street, he saw from the face of one of the ephors what
he was coming for; another, too, made him a secret signal, and betrayed
it to him from kindness. Setting off with a run for the temple of the
goddess of the Brazen House, the enclosure of which was near at hand, he
succeeded in taking sanctuary before they took him, and entering into a
small chamber, which formed part of the temple, to avoid being exposed
to the weather, lay still there. The ephors, for the moment distanced
in the pursuit, afterwards took off the roof of the chamber, and having
made sure that he was inside, shut him in, barricaded the doors, and
staying before the place, reduced him by starvation. When they found
that he was on the point of expiring, just as he was, in the chamber,
they brought him out of the temple, while the breath was still in him,
and as soon as he was brought out he died. They were going to throw
him into the Kaiadas, where they cast criminals, but finally decided to
inter him somewhere near. But the god at Delphi afterwards ordered the
Lacedaemonians to remove the tomb to the place of his death--where he
now lies in the consecrated ground, as an inscription on a monument
declares--and, as what had been done was a curse to them, to give back
two bodies instead of one to the goddess of the Brazen House. So they
had two brazen statues made, and dedicated them as a substitute for
Pausanias. The Athenians retorted by telling the Lacedaemonians to drive
out what the god himself had pronounced to be a curse.

To return to the Medism of Pausanias. Matter was found in the course
of the inquiry to implicate Themistocles; and the Lacedaemonians
accordingly sent envoys to the Athenians and required them to punish him
as they had punished Pausanias. The Athenians consented to do so. But
he had, as it happened, been ostracized, and, with a residence at Argos,
was in the habit of visiting other par