1When the ephors had learned these things, they thought it better that he be arrested in the city. 1When they had set out there, and Pausanias, having appeased the Argilian as he thought, was returning to Sparta, on the way, when he was already on the point of being arrested, he realised from the face of one of the ephors, who wished him to be warned, that a trap was being laid for him. 2So, a few paces ahead of those who were following him, he took refuge in the temple of Minerva which is called Chalcioicos. 2So that he could not come out from there, the ephors at once blocked up the doors of that temple and demolished the roof, so that he might die the sooner under the open sky.
3It is said that Pausanias' mother was alive at that time and that, already of great age, when she learned of her son's crime, she was among the first to bring a stone to the entrance of the temple to shut her son in. 4When he had been carried out of the temple half dead, he immediately breathed his last. 4Thus Pausanias stained his great glory in war with a shameful death. 5When some said that his dead body ought to be taken to the same place as those who had been given over to execution, the majority disapproved, and they buried him far from the place where he had died.
5Later, by a response of the Delphic god, he was dug up from there and buried in the same place where he had laid down his life.