Son of Kleombrotos and Anchithea; king of the Spartans. After [sc. the battle of] Plataiai he dedicated a tripod to Apollo and wrote on it "Leader of the Greeks, since he destroyed the Persian army, Pausanias dedicated this monument to Phoebus [Apollo]."[1] Once he had begun to medize[2] he was taking bribes from Egyptians and Phoenicians in Byzantium and took to dressing and eating in the Persian way; and he wooed the daughter of Xerxes as the price for Greece. Summoned to judgement and convicted, he fled into a precinct of Athena; but his mother was the first to place a brick against the entrance, and then the rest [did the same];[3] and thus he died inside, but they threw his body into the Keadas -- this is a pit[4] -- and they deleted the inscription from the tripod and inscribed [instead] the [victorious] cities. It was also because of him that the Greeks abandoned [sc. Spartan leadership and turned] to the Athenians. But when Sparta had fallen ill, they set up a bronze statue of Pausanias and they were saved.[5]