Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 7.12

• 7.12.1: Menalcidas pockets Oropian bribe, denies Callicrates his share.
• 7.12.2: Callikrates accuses Menalkidas of treachery and seeks his death.
• 7.12.3: Diaeus takes Menalcidas' three talents and diverts Achaeans' blame
• 7.12.4: Diaeus lies that Rome allowed Achaeans to execute Spartans
• 7.12.5: Achaean demand to prosecute Spartans and bar private Roman embassies
• 7.12.6: War between the Achaeans and Lacedaemonians under Diaeus.
• 7.12.7: Agasisthenes urges 24 leading Spartans to leave Lacedaemon.
• 7.12.8: Achaean envoys to Rome—Callicrates dies en route; Diaeus fails before the Senate.
• 7.12.9: Deception over Roman arbitration by Diaeus and Menalcidas.