130.
Pausanias received the letter.
He had already acquired a high reputation among the Hellenes1 when in command at Plataea, and now he was so great that he could no longer
contain himself or live like other men.
Whenever he marched out of Byzantium he wore Persian apparel.
On his way through Thrace he was always attended by a body-guard of Medes and
Egyptians, and he had his table served after the Persian fashion.
He could not conceal his ambition,
but indicated by little things the greater designs
which he was meditating.
[2]
He made himself difficult of access,
and displayed such a violent temper towards
everybody that no one could come near him;
and this was one of the chief reasons why the
confederacy transferred themselves to the Athenians.
1 Pausanias, carried away by pride, manifests his ambitious designs.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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