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134-136] FLIGHT OF THEMISTOCLES 9I changed their minds and buried him somewhere in the neighbourhood. The God of Delphi afterwards com- manded them to transfer him to the place where he died, and he now lies in the entrance to the precinct, as the in- scription on the column testifies. The oracle also told them that they had brought a curse upon themselves, and must offer two bodies for one to Athene of the Brazen House. Whereupon they made two brazen statues, which they de- dicated, intending them to be an expiation for Pausanias. To this judgment of the God himself the Athenians 135 referred when they retorted on the Lacedaemonians, telling them to banish the curse. Now the evidence which proved that Pausanias was in league with Persia implicated Themis- Themistocks is i,u- tocles ; and the Lacedaemonians sent plicated in the plot, and ambassadors to the Athenians charging o^'V^'s "^^ ^"it to take him likewise with treason, and demand- ing that he should receive the same punishment. The Athenians agreed, but having been ostracised he was living at the time in Argos, whence he used to visit other parts of the Peloponnese. The Lacedaemonians were very ready to join in the pursuit ; so they and the Athenians sent officers, who were told to arrest him wherever they should find him. Themistocles received information of their purpose, and 136 fled from the Peloponnesus to the He seeks refuge Corcyraeans, who were under an obli- among the Corcyme- , . T-i /-- -J aits; they are afraid gation to him. The Corcyraeans said ^^ ^^j^^^^^ ^^^j j.^^^. that they were afraid to keep him, lest daemon, and send him they should incur the enmity of Athens away toEpirns. Com- 1 T 1 .1 ^A i'K to the house of and Lacedaemon ; so they conveyed /j^^,^,,^,^^ ^,-„^ „y the him to the neighbouring continent, Molossians, he sits as whither he was followed by the officers, « suppliant at the who constantly enquired in which direc- tion he had gone and pursued him everywhere. Owing to an accident he was compelled to stop at the house of Admetus, king of the Molossians, who was not his friend.