History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.

The Athenians received their proposals, and attended to them with a determination not to overlook it, and to settle all other matters as might seem best to them.

At this time the Lacedaemonians sent for Pausanias, to bring him to account for what they had heard of him; for [*]( Literally, much guilt was laid to his charge. ) many charges were brought against him by the Greeks who came to them; and it appeared to be an imitation of a tyranny, rather than the command of a general.