Pausanias son of Cleombrotus
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Pausanias · king of Sparta
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Orations
Spartan regent and victor of the Battle of Plataea, killed by the ephors
so that Pausanias son of Cleombrotus, the victor at Plataea, they wished to cast into prison, and when he fled for refuge into the temple of Athena, they killed him there;
The Histories
Spartan regent and commander of the allied Greek army at Plataea, who orders troop movements, prays to Hera, wins the decisive victory, protects a suppliant woman, refuses to mutilate Mardonius's corpse, and stages a banquet contrasting Persian luxury with Spartan simplicity.
Then Pausanias made a proclamation that no man should touch the spoils, and ordered the helots to gather all the stuff together.
On that day the Spartans, as the oracle had foretold, gained from Mardonius their full measure of vengeance for the slaying of Leonidas, and the most glorious of victories of all which we know was won by Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, who was the son of Anaxandrides.
When dawn found the dispute still continuing, Pausanias, who had up to this point kept his army where it was, now gave the word and led all the rest away between the hillocks, the Tegeans following, for he supposed that Amompharetus would not stay behind when the rest of the Lacedaemonians left him;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan general placed in command of the allied Greek fleet after the Persian retreat, leading campaigns to Cyprus and Byzantium.
Now Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, was sent out from Lacedaemon as general of the Greeks with twenty ships from the Peloponnese;
And they made an expedition against Cyprus, and subdued the greater part of it;