PAUSANIAS.
49. But after his banishment, having made the Athenians
masters of the Hellespont, and having taken more than five
thousand Peloponnesians prisoners, he sent them to Athens;
and after this, returning to his country, he crowned the Attic
triremes with branches, and mitres, and fillets. And fastening
to his own vessels a quantity of ships which he had taken,
with their beaks broken off, to the number of two hundred,
and conveying also transports full of Lacedæmonian and
Peloponnesian spoils and arms, he sailed into the Piræus: and
the trireme in which he himself was, ran up to the very bars
of the Piræus with purple sails; and when it got inside the
harbour, and when the rowers took their oars, Chrysogonus
played on a flute the trieric air, clad in a Persian robe, and
Callippides the tragedian, clad in a theatrical dress, gave the
word to the rowers. On account of which some one said
with great wit—"Sparta could never have endured two
Lysanders, nor Athens two Alcibiadeses." But Alcibiades was
imitating the Medism of Pausanias, and when he was staying
with Pharnabazus, he put on a Persian robe, and learnt the
Persian language, as Themistocles had done.
50. And Duris says, in the twenty-second book of his History,—"Pausanias, the king of Lacedæmon, having laid aside the national cloak of Lacedæmon, adopted the Persian dress. And Dionysius, the tyrant of Sicily, adopted a theatrical robe and a golden tragic crown with a clasp. And Alexander, when he became master of Asia, also adopted the Persian dress. But Demetrius outdid them all; for the very shoes which he wore he had made in a most costly manner; for in its form it was a kind of buskin, made of most expensive purple wool; and on this the makers wove a great deal of golden embroidery, both before and behind; and his cloak was of a brilliant tawny colour; and, in short, a representation of the heavens was woven into it, having the stars and twelve signs of the Zodiac all wrought in gold; and his head-band was spangled all over with gold, binding on a purple broad-brimmed hat in such a manner that the outer fringes hung down the back. And when the Demetrian festival was celebrated at Athens, Demetrius himself was painted on the proscenium, sitting on the world." And Nymphis of Heraclea, in the sixth book of his treatise on his Country, says—"Pausanias, who defeated Mardonius at Platæa, having transgressed the laws of Sparta, and given
