History of the Peloponnesian War

Thus it was that the Athenians,[*](cf. 1.128.1) in response to the demand of the Lacedaemonians, ordered them to drive out the curse of Taenarus, seeing that the god also declared it to be a curse.

But when Pausanias was thus convicted of treasonable dealings with Persia, the Lacedaemonians sent envoys to the Athenians and accused Themistocles also of complicity in the plot, in accordance with discoveries they had made in connection with their investigation about Pausanias;

and they demanded that he be punished in the same way. The Athenians agreed, but as he happened to have been ostracised, and, though living in Argos, frequently visited other parts of the Peloponnesus also, they sent some men, accompanied by the Lacedaemonians (who were quite ready to join in the pursuit), with instructions to arrest him wherever they chanced to find him.

But Themistocles, forewarned, fled from the Peloponnesus to Corcyra, since he was a benefactor[*](εὐεργέτης, benefactor, a title of honour bestowed upon him, either because he took the part of the Corcyreans in a dispute with Corinth (Plut. Them. 24), or because he had excused their absence (Schol.) in the Persian war (Hdt. 8.115). Themistocles relied upon the right of asylum, which had doubtless been decreed him as εὐεργέτης.) of the Corcyraeans. As they, however, alleged that they were afraid to keep him and thus incur the enmity of the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, he was conveyed by them across to the mainland opposite.