Pausanias

and having gone to Beroea, and thence turned again [to the coast], (after first attempting the place without taking it,) they continued their march by land to Potidaea, with three thousand heavy-armed of their own, and many of the allies besides, and six hundred horse of the Macedonians with Philip and Pausanias.

but was acquitted, as not guilty, on the heaviest charges.

for many charges were brought against him by the Greeks who came to them;

And when all had been gathered together, Pausanias led them to Athens and encamped in the Academy.

Thereupon the Lacedaemonians took the field with their whole force, and likewise the rest of the Peloponnesians excepting the Argives, at the command of Pausanias, the other king of the Lacedaemonians.

Thereupon Pausanias set up a trophy and returned to his camp;

This is clear, for when they had driven the Persian back and the battle was no longer for their territory but for his, they made a pretext of Pausanias ' highhandedness and took the command away from the Lacedaemonians.

Pausanias chose as his colleague a man of the same family, Euryanax son of Dorieus.

Seven helots were appointed to attend each of them, and they gave the command to Pausanias son of Cleombrotus.

Dion Prusaeensis also and Pausanias define a monarchy in the same terms.

Thus Pausanias says of the Argives to the Corinthians, “The Argives from their love of equality have reduced their kingly power very low;

There was amoung the Athenians an altar dedicated to Mercy;

But when Philip was dead and Alexander had come to the throne, Demosthenes again put on prodigious airs and caused a shrine to he dedicated to Pausanias and involved the senate in the charge of having offered sacrifice of thanksgiving as for good news.

For my suit against this motion, which you say I instituted, not in the city’s behalf, but as a manifesto to Alexander, was instituted while Philip was still alive, before Alexander had come to the throne, before ever you had had that dream of yours about Pausanias, or ever had conversed with Athena and Hera in the night.

The Speech of Pausanias

Then Pausanias opened a conversation after this manner:

Pausanias’ praise made a pause with this phrase—you see what jingles the schoolmen are teaching me!

When Iphicrates had heard all this, he drove Pausanias out of Macedonia and preserved the dynasty for you.

For shortly after the death of Amyntas, and of Alexander, the eldest of the brothers, while Perdiccas and Philip were still children, when their mother Eurydice had been betrayed by those who professed to be their friends, and when Pausanias was coming back to contend for the throne, an exile then, but favoured by opportunity and the support of many of the people, and bringing a Greek force with h …

for these, even before Pausanias arrived, kept up communication with those in the Piraeus, and when he arrived they zealously promoted the return.

For it was Pausanias the king of the Lacedaemonians who brought the peace and reconciliation to completion, together with the ten arbitrators who came afterward from Lacedaemon, whom he himself was eager to have come.

He is an enemy to his own parents but a friend to Pausanias the whoremonger, and though he swaggers like a man he allows himself to be used like a woman.

and the Greeks were incensed at this, and the Plataeans brought suit on behalf of the allies against the Lacedaemonians before the Amphictyons for one thousand talents, and compelled them to erase the distich and to inscribe the names of all the states which had had a part in the work.

Pausanias, the king of the Lacedaemonians, puffed up by this, inscribed a distich upon the tripod at Delphi, which the Greeks who had jointly fought in the battle at Plataea and in the sea-fight at Salamis had made in common from the spoils taken from the barbarians, and had set up in honor of Apollo as a memorial of their valor.

And when Pausanias, the king of the Lacedaemonians, sought to put an insult upon you, and was not content that the Lacedaemonians had been honored by the Greeks with the supreme command, and when your city, which in reality had been the leader in securing liberty for the Greeks, forbore to strive with the Lacedaemonians as rivals for the honor through fear of arousing jealousy among the allies;

and near him on the beds hard by lay Pausanias from Cerames, and with Pausanias a lad who was still quite young, of good birth and breeding, I should say, and at all events a very good-looking person.

on receiving which the king so blazed up that he straightway ordered Pausanias to restore the goods to the former owner, and, for the rest, to brand the most wicked soldier, the most ungrateful host, the most greedy survivor of shipwreck, with marks witnessing him an ungrateful man.

But he went further and adduced as evidence in support of his position both the Thebans and the Eleans, alleging that this was their policy;

Yet Pausanias, the lover of the poet Agathon, has said in his defence of those who wallow in lasciviousness that the most valiant army, even, would be one recruited of lovers and their favourites!

For these, he said, would in his opinion be most likely to be prevented by shame from deserting one another,—a strange assertion, indeed, that persons acquiring an habitual indifference to censure and to abandoned conduct toward one another will be most likely to be deterred by shame from any infamous act.