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PAUSANIAS AT ATHENS 271 Under the influence of these feelings, king Pausanias obtained the consent of three out of the five ephors to undertake himselt an expedition into Attica, at the head of the forces of the con- federacy, for which he immediately issued proclamation. Opposed to the political tendencies of Lysander, he was somewhat inclined to sympathize with the democracy, not merely at Athens, but elsewhere also, as at Mantineia. 1 It was probably understood that his intentions towards Athens were lenient and anti-Lysan- drian, so that the Peloponnesian allies obeyed the summons generally : yet the Boeotians and Corinthians still declined, on the ground that Athens had done nothing to violate the late con- vention ; a remarkable proof of the altered feelings of Greece during the last year, since, down to the period of that convention, these two states had been more bitterly hostile to Athens than any others in the confederacy. They suspected that even the expedition of Pausanias was projected with selfish Lacedaemonian views, to secure Attica as a separate dependency of Sparta, though detached from Lysander. 2 On approaching Athens, Pausanias, joined by Lysander and the forces already in Attica, encamped in the garden of the Academy, near the city gates. His sentiments were sufficiently known beforehand to offer encouragement ; so that the vehement reaction against the atrocities of the Thirty, which the presence of Lysander had doubtless stifled, burst forth without delay. The surviving relatives of the victims slain beset him even at the Academy in his camp, with prayers for protection and cries of vengeance against the oligarchs. Among those victims, as I have already stated, were Nikeratus the son, and Eukrates the brother, of Nikias who had perished at Syracuse, the friend and proxenus of Sparta at Athens. The orphan children, both of Nikeratus and Eukrates, were taken to Pausanias by their rela- tive Diognetus, who implored his protection for them, recounting at the same time the unmerited execution of their respective fathers, and setting forth their family claims upon the justice of Sparta. This affecting incident, which has been specially made known to us, 3 doubtless did not stand alone, among so manj 1 Xenoph. Hellen. v, 2, 3. * Xcnoph. Hellcn. ii, 4, 30. Lvsius, Or xviii, De Bonis Niciae Frat. sects. 8-10.