previous next 131. When the Lacedaemonians heard of it, they
called him home the first time. And when being gone out the
second time without their command in a galley of Hermione, it
appeared that he continued still in the same practices and,
after he was forced out of Byzantium by siege of the Athenians,
returned not to Sparta, but news came that he had seated himself
at Colonae in the country of Troy practicing still with the
barbarians and making his abode there for no good purpose, then
the ephori forebore no longer but sent unto him a public officer
with the scytale commanding him not to depart from the officer
and, in case he refused, denounced war against him. [2] But he,
desiring as much as he could to decline suspicion and believing
that with money he should be able to discharge himself of his
accusations, returned unto Sparta the second time. And first he
was by the ephori committed to ward (for the ephori have power
to do this to their king); but afterwards, procuring his
enlargement, he came forth