It was the habitual policy of that great king to attach to his dominions the valour and the intellect of the Greeks.
[269] Pausanias says, that Talthybius afterward razed the house of Miltiades, because that chief instigated the Athenians to the execution of the Persian envoys.
[270] Demaratus had not only prevented the marriage of Leotychides with a maiden named Percalos, but, by a mixture of violence and artifice, married her himself.

Thus, even among the sober and unloving Spartans, woman could still be the author of revolutions.
[271] The national pride of the Spartans would not, however, allow that their king was the object of the anger of the gods, and ascribing his excesses to his madness, accounted for the last by a habit of excessive drinking which he had acquired from the Scythians [272] Herod., l.

6, c.

94.
[273] Ibid., l.

6, c.