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The son of Eurypon was Prytanis, in whose reign began the enmity of the Lacedaemonians against the Argives, although even before this quarrel they made war against the Cynurians. During the generations immediately succeeding this, while Eunomus the son of Prytanis and Polydectes the son of Eunomus were on the throne,
but Charillus the son of Polydectes devastated the land of the Argives—for he it was who invaded Argolis—and not many years afterwards, under the leadership of Charillus, took place the campaign of the Spartans against
After the death of Charillus, Nicander his son succeeded to the throne, in whose reign the Messenians murdered, in the sanctuary of the Lady of the Lake, Teleclus the king of the other house. Nicander also invaded
About Theopompus, the son of Nicander, who ascended the throne after him, I shall have more to say later on, when I come to the history of
Nevertheless Archidamus did not die childless, but left a son Zeuxidamus, whose son Anaxidamus succeeded to the throne. In his reign the Messenians were expelled from the
Ariston, son of Agesicles, married a wife who, they say, was the ugliest maiden in
about the birth of Eurystheus, or else never having understood them at all, declared that because of the number of months the child was not his.
Afterwards he repented of his words. Demaratus, a king of good repute at
Leotychides, on coming to the throne in place of Demaratus, took part with the Athenians and the Athenian general Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, in the engagement of Mycale, note and afterwards undertook a campaign against the Aleuadae in
Or, being brought to trial in
Nevertheless he was not eager that war should be declared between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, but to the utmost of his power tried to keep the truce between them unbroken. note It was Sthenelaidas, an influential Spartan who was an ephor at the time, who was chiefly responsible for the war.
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