80. He having heard this went his way; and Pausanias made a proclamation that none should lay hands upon the spoil, and he ordered the Helots to collect the things together. They accordingly dispersed themselves about the camp and found tents furnished with gold and silver, and beds overlaid with gold and overlaid with silver, and mixing-bowls of gold, and cups and other drinking vessels. They found also sacks laid upon wagons, in which there proved to be cauldrons both of gold and of silver; and from the dead bodies which lay there they stripped bracelets and collars, and also their swords 1418 if they were of gold, for as to embroidered raiment, there was no account made of it. Then the Helots stole many of the things and sold them to the Aeginetans, but many things also they delivered up, as many of them as they could not conceal; so that the great wealth of the Aeginetans first came from this, that they bought the gold from the Helots making pretence that it was brass. 81.
1794