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===Pausanias's plot=== The first helot attempt at revolt which is historically reported is that provoked by general [[Pausanias (general)|Pausanias]] in the 5th century BC. Thucydides reports:<ref>Thucydides, 1.132, 4.</ref> <blockquote> Besides, they were informed that he was even intriguing with the helots; and such indeed was the fact, for he promised them freedom and citizenship if they would join him in insurrection, and would help him to carry out his plans to the end.<ref name="Thucyd"/> </blockquote> These intrigues did not however lead to a helot uprising; Thucydides indeed implies that Pausanias was turned in by the helots (I, 132, 5 β ''...the evidence even of the helots themselves.'') Perhaps the promises made by Pausanias were too generous to be believed by the helots; not even Brasidas, when he emancipated his helot volunteers, offered full citizenship.<ref>Ducat (1990), p. 130.</ref>
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