Paus. 2.1Post id proelium eundem Pausaniam cum classe commūnī Cyprum atque Hellēspontum mīsērunt, ut ex iīs regiōnibus barbarōrum praesidia dēpelleret.After that battle they sent the same Pausanias with the allied fleet to Cyprus and the Hellespont, to drive the barbarians' garrisons out of those regions. Paus. 2.2Parī fēlīcitāte in eā rē ūsus ēlātius sē gerere coepit maiōrēsque appetere rēs.Having enjoyed equal success in that venture, he began to behave more arrogantly and to aim at greater things. Paus. 2.2Nam cum Byzantiō expugnātō cēpisset complūrēs Persārum nōbilēs atque in eīs nōnnūllōs rēgis propinquōs, hōs clam Xerxī remīsit, simulāns ex vinclīs pūblicīs effūgisse, et cum iīs Gongylum Eretriēnsem, quī litterās rēgī redderet, in quibus haec fuisse scrīpta Thūcȳdidēs memoriae prōdidit: "Pausaniās, dux Spartae, quōs Byzantiī cēperat, postquam propinquōs tuōs cognōvit, tibi mūnerī mīsit sēque tēcum affīnitāte coniungī cupit: quārē, sī tibi vidētur, dēs eī fīliam tuam nūptum.For when, after storming Byzantium, he had captured several Persian nobles, and among them some relatives of the king, he secretly sent them back to Xerxes, pretending that they had escaped from the public prison, and with them Gongylus of Eretria, to deliver a letter to the king, in which, as Thucydides has recorded, these words were written: 'Pausanias, the commander of Sparta, having learned that those he had captured at Byzantium were your relatives, has sent them to you as a gift, and desires to be joined to you by marriage: therefore, if you approve, give him your daughter as his wife.
Paus. 2.4Id sī fēceris, et Spartam et cēteram Graeciam sub tuam potestātem sē adiuvante tē redāctūrum pollicētur.If you do this, he promises that with your help he will bring both Sparta and the rest of Greece under your power. Paus. 2.4Hīs dē rēbus sī quid agere volueris, certum hominem ad eum mittās face, cum quō colloquātur."If you wish to take any action in these matters, see that you send him a reliable man with whom he may confer.' Paus. 2.5Rēx tot hominum salūte tam sibi necessāriōrum magnō opere gāvīsus cōnfestim cum epistulā Artabazum ad Pausaniam mittit in quā eum collaudat ac petit, nē cui reī parcat ad ea efficienda, quae pollicērētur: sī perfēcerit, nūllīus reī ā sē repulsam lātūrum.The king, greatly delighted at the safety of so many men so closely related to him, at once sends Artabazus to Pausanias with a letter in which he praises him warmly and asks him to spare nothing in accomplishing what he promised: if he achieved it, he would meet with refusal from him in nothing. Paus. 2.6Huius Pausaniās voluntāte cognitā alacrior ad rem gerendam factus in suspīciōnem cecidit Lacedaemoniōrum.When Pausanias learned the king's wishes, he became more eager to carry out the plan and fell under the suspicion of the Spartans.
Paus. 2.6Quō factō domum revocātus, accūsātus capitis absolvitur, multātur tamen pecūniā, quam ob causam ad classem remissus nōn est.As a result he was recalled home, tried on a capital charge and acquitted, but fined; and for this reason he was not sent back to the fleet.