 No fragments of the pamphlet have survived and its contents or purposes are not clear.However, it seems that he wrote the pamphlet to criticize his opponents in Sparta accusing them of violating traditional Spartan laws and advocating the abolition of the ephors.Pausanias is believed to have outlived his son, Agesipolis I, according to an inscription found on a monument set up by Pausanias to the memory of his son in Delphi.