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 BATTLES OF PLAT.EA AND MYKALE. 187 until these chiefs were given up. After twenty days of endur- ance, the latter at length proposed, if it should prove that Pausanias peremptorily required their persons and refused to accept a sum of money in commutation, to sui-render themselves voluntarily as the price of hberation for their country. A nego- tiation was accordingly entered into with Pausanias, and the persons demanded were surrendered to him, excepting Attaginus, who found means to escape at the last moment. His sons, whom he left behind, were delivered up as substitutes, but Pausanias refused to touch them, Avith the just remark, which in those times was even generous,' that they were nowise implicated in the medism of their father. Timegenidas and the remaining pris oners were carried off to Corinth, and immediately put to death, without the smallest discussion or form of trial : Pausanias was apprehensive that if any delay or consultation were granted, their wealth and that of their friends would efi'ectually purchase voices for their acquittal, — indeed, the prisoners themselves had been induced to give themselves up partly in that expectation.^ It is remarkable that Pausanias himself, only a few years afterwards, when attainted of treason, returned and surrendered himself at Sparta, under similar hopes of being able to buy himself off by money.3 In this hope, indeed, he found himself deceived, as Timegenidas had been deceived before : but the fact is not the less to be noted, as indicating the general impression that the leading men in a Grecian city were usually open to bribes in judicial matters, and that individuals superior to this temptation were rare exceptions. I shall have occasion to dwell upon this recognized untrustworthiness of the leading Greeks when I come ' See, a little above in this chapter, the treatment of the wife and chil- dren of the Athenian senator Ljkidas (Herodot. ix, 5). Compare also Herodot. iii, 116; ix, 120. ^ Thucyd. i, 131. /cat tzlgtevuv xPVIM<^i- 3ia?.vcretv rrjv 6ia(io7^fjv. Com- pare Thucyd. viii, 45, ■where he states that the trierarchs and generals of the Lacedaemonian and allied fleet, all except Hermokrates of S.>Tacuse, received bribes from Tissaphemes to betray the interests both of their seamen and of their country : also c. 49 of the same book about the Lace- daemonian general Astyochus. The bribes received by the Spartan kings Leotychides and Pleistoanax are recorded (Herodot. vi, 72; Thucyd. ii, 21).
 * Herodot. ix, 87, 88.