Book 12
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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 himself up to pride, when staying near Byzantium, dared to put an inscription on the brazen goblet which is there consecrated to the gods, whose temple is at the entrance of the strait, (and the goblet is in existence to this day,) as if he had dedicated it himself; putting this inscription on it, forgetting himself through his luxury and arrogance— Pausanias, the general of broad Greece, Offered this goblet to the royal Neptune, A fit memorial of his deathless valour, Here in the Euxine sea. He was by birth A Spartan, and Cleombrotus's son, Sprung from the ancient race of Hercules."
