Cimon   

zeal and readiness. And further, perceiving that Pausanias was carrying
on secret communications with the barbarians, and writing letters
to the King of Persia to betray Greece, and puffed up with authority
and success, was treating the allies haughtily, and committing many
wanton injustices, Cimon, taking this advantage, by acts of kindness
to those who were suffering wrong, and by his general humane bearing,
robbed him of the command of the Greeks, before he was aware, not
by arms, but by his mere language and character. The greatest part
of the allies, no longer able to endure the harshness and pride of
Pausanias, revolted from him to Cimon and Aristides, who accepted
the duty, and wrote to the Ephors of Sparta, desiring them to recall
a man who was causing dishonour to Sparta and trouble to Greece. They
tell of Pausanias, that when he was in Byzantium, he solicited a young
lady of a noble family in the city, whose name was Cleonice, to debauch
her. Her parents, dreading his cruelty, were forced to consent, and
so abandoned their daughter to his wishes. The daughter asked the
servants outside the chamber to put out all the lights; so that approaching
silently and in the dark towards his bed, she stumbled upon the lamp,
which she overturned. Pausanias, who was fallen asleep, awakened and,
startled with the noise, thought an assassin had taken that dead time
of night to murder him, so that hastily snatching up his poniard that
lay by him, he struck the girl, who fell with the blow, and died.
After this, he never had rest, but was continually haunted by her,
and saw an apparition visiting him in his sleep, and addressing him
with these angry words:-
"Go on thy way, unto the evil end,
That doth on lust and violence attend." This was one of the chief
occasions of indignation against him among the confederates, who now,
joining their resentments and forces with Cimon's, besieged him in
Byzantium. He escaped out of their hands, and, continuing, as it is
said, to be disturbed by the apparition, fled to the oracle of the
dead at Heraclea, raised the ghost of Cleonice, and entreated her
to be reconciled. Accordingly she appeared to him, and answered that,
as soon as he came to Sparta, he should speedily be freed from all
evils; obscurely foretelling, it would seem, his imminent death. This
story is related by many authors.
Cimon, strengthened with the accession of the allies, went as general
into Thrace. For he was told that some great men among the Persians,
of the king's kindred, being in possession of Eion, a city situated
upon the river Strymon, infested the neighbouring Greeks. First he
defeated these Persians in battle, and shut them up within the walls
of their town. Then he fell upon the Thracians of the country beyond
the Strymon, because they supplied Eion with victuals, and driving
them entirely out of the country, took possession of it as conqueror,
by which means he reduced the besieged to such straits, that Butes,
who commanded there for the king, in desperation set fire to the town,
and burned himself, his goods, and all his relations, in one common
flame. By this means, Cimon got the town, but no great booty; as the
barbarians had not only consumed themselves in the fire, but the richest
of their effects. However, he put the country about into the hands
of the Athenians, a most advantageous and desirable situation for
a settlement. For this action, the people permitted him to erect the
stone Mercuries, upon the first of which was this inscription:-
"Of bold and patient spirit, too, were those,
Who, where the Strymon under Eion flows,
With famine and the sword, to utmost need,
Reduced at last the children of the Mede." Upon the second stood this:-
"The Athenians to their leaders this reward
For great and useful service did accord;
Others hereafter shall, from their applause,
Learn to be valiant in their country's cause." And upon the third
the following:-
"With Atreus' sons, this city sent of yore
Divine Menestheus to the Trojan shore;