faculty of intuitively meeting an emergency.
Disease was the real cause of his death; though there is a story of his
having ended his life by poison, on finding himself unable to fulfil his
promises to the king. However this may be, there is a monument to him
in the marketplace of Asiatic Magnesia. He was governor of the district,
the King having given him Magnesia, which brought in fifty talents a
year, for bread, Lampsacus, which was considered to be the richest wine
country, for wine, and Myos for other provisions. His bones, it is said,
were conveyed home by his relatives in accordance with his wishes, and
interred in Attic ground. This was done without the knowledge of the
Athenians; as it is against the law to bury in Attica an outlaw
for treason. So ends the history of Pausanias and Themistocles, the
Lacedaemonian and the Athenian, the most famous men of their time in
Hellas.

To return to the Lacedaemonians. The history of their first embassy,
the injunctions which it conveyed, and the rejoinder which it provoked,
concerning the expulsion of the accursed persons, have been related
already. It was followed by a second, which ordered Athens to raise the
siege of Potidaea, and to respect the independence of Aegina. Above all,
it gave her most distinctly to understand that war might be prevented
by the revocation of the Megara decree, excluding the Megarians from the
use of Athenian harbours and of the market of Athens. But Athens was
not inclined either to revoke the decree, or to entertain their other
proposals; she accused the Megarians of pushing their cultivation into
the consecrated ground and the unenclosed land on the border, and of
harbouring her runaway slaves. At last an embassy arrived with the
Lacedaemonian ultimatum. The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and
Agesander. Not a word was said on any of the old subjects; there was
simply this: "Lacedaemon wishes the peace to continue, and there is no
reason why it should not, if you would leave the Hellenes independent."
Upon this the Athenians held an assembly, and laid the matter before
their consideration. It was resolved to deliberate once for all on all
their demands, and to give them an answer. There were many speakers who
came forward and gave their support to one side or the other, urging
the necessity of war, or the revocation of the decree and the folly
of allowing it to stand in the way of peace. Among them came forward
Pericles, son of Xant