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After this Pausanias caused proclamation to be made, that no one
should lay hands on the booty, but that the Helots should collect it
and bring it all to one place. So the Helots went and spread
themselves through the camp, wherein were found many tents richly
adorned with furniture of gold and silver, many couches covered with
plates of the same, and many golden bowls, goblets, and other
drinking-vessels. On the carriages were bags containing silver and
golden kettles; and the bodies of the slain furnished bracelets and
chains, and scymitars with golden ornaments - not to mention
embroidered apparel, of which no one made any account. The Helots at
this time stole many things of much value, which they sold in after
times to the Eginetans; however, they brought in likewise no small
quantity, chiefly such things as it was not possible for them to hide.
And this was the beginning of the great wealth of the Eginetans, who
bought the gold of the Helots as if it had been mere brass.
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