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 GRECIAN AFFAIRS AFTER THE PERSIAN INVASION. 269 proceedings, sent a herald out to him, with peremptory orders that he should come home immediately along Avith the herald : if he disobeyed, "the Spartans would declare war against him," or constitute him a public enemy. As the execution of this threat would have frustrated all the ulterior schemes of Pausanias, he thought it prudent to obey ; the rather, as he felt entire confidence of escaping all the charges against him at Sparta by the employment of bribes,' the means for which were abundantly furnished to him through Artabazus. He accordingly returned along with the herald, and was, in the first moments of indignation, imprisoned by order of the ephors ; who, it seems, were legally competent to imprison him, even had he been king instead of regent. But he was soon let out, on his own requisition, and under a private arrangement with friends and partisans, to take his trial against all accusers.^ Even to De Fals. Legat. c. 76, p. 428 ; iEschin. cont. Ktesiphont. ad fin. Hai-polirat. V. 'Arifiog — Deinarchus cont. Ai-istogeiton, sects. 25, 26. Plutarch (Themistokles, c. 6, and Aristeides, torn, ii, p. 218) tells us that Themistokles proposed this decree against Arthmius and caused it to be passed. But Plutarch refers it to the time when Xerxes was on the point of invading Greece. Now it appears to me that the incident cannot well belong to that point of time. Xei-xes did not rely upon bribes, but upon other and different means, for conquering Gi-eece : besides, the very tenor of the decree shows that it must have been passed after the formation of the confederacy of Delos, — for it pronounces Arthmius to be an enemy of Athens and of all the allies of Athens. To a native of Zeleia it miglit be a serious penalty to be excluded and proscribed from all tlie cities in alli- ance with Athens ; many of them being on the coast of Asia. I know no point of time to which the mission of Arthmius can be so conveniently refeiTed as this, — when Pausanias and Artabazus were engaged in this very part of Asia, in contriving plots to get up a party in Greece. Pausanias was thus engaged for some years, — before the banishment of Themis- tokles. ' Thucyd. i, 131. 'O 6e [3ov2.6fj.evoc tJf TjKtaTa vnonrog eivai koc Tnarevuv ■}(pr;uaaL dia'Avastv rf/v 6ial3o2.f/v, uvexi^pei. to dsvrepov cf 'Znuprrjv. ^ Thucyd. i, 131. Knt Ig filv rf/v eipKTr/v kan'nzTEL rb Tvpurov inrd ruv i<p6puv • t-ELTa 6iaTrpa^u/xevoc varepov i^7/X-&e, Kat KaQiaTTjaiv iavruv ff Kpiaiv rolg Bovlofiivoic 77ep? avrbv iXt-y^Biv. The woi-d dcaTvpa^d/xevoc indicates, first, that Pausanias himself originated the efforts to get free, — next, that he came to an underhand arrangement : very probably by a bribe, though the word does not necessarily imply it. The Scholiast says so, distinctly, — XP^^"<^' xoi ?,6roi( StaTrpa^a/iievo^