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grbs-10091	Blamire, Alec	Pausanias and Persia	1970	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4747	220	59	They rely heavily on the doubtful inference from Pluto Cim. 9 that Pausanias recovered, and had to be expelled from, Sestos as well as Byzan- 3-G·R.B.S. 300 PAUSANIAS AND PERSIA would move quickly to dislodge him from such a key base, and there is in fact evidence, albeit less than conclusive, that they did so.17 It is true that Justin (9.1.3) states that Byzantium was in the hands of Pau­ sanias for seven years, but none of the scholars who have defended this statement on the assumption that it derives from an authoritative local source18 has offered a convincing explanation for the Athenian delay in expelling Pausanias, and it may be concluded with confidence that Justin is in error.19 After his expulsion Pausanias crossed to Kolonai in the Troad, where his intrigues with Persia are reported to have continued and from which the ephors recalled him to face in­ vestigation for the second time.20 Thucydides (1.128.3) says that Pausanias' personal object in return­ ing to Byzantium was to resume the negotiations with Persia into which he had entered the previous year with a view to making him­ self ruler of Greece. The period available to Pausanias from the occupation of Byzantium to his recall cannot have been longer than six months, and this is con­ spicuously too short for the exchange of correspondence.7 Pausanias would have had time at most to open the transaction by writing to Xerxes: he cannot possibly have received Xerxes' reply before his re­ call.	cache/grbs-10091.pdf	txt/grbs-10091.txt