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.