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Afterwards Laodice, a descendant of Agapenor, sent to
This is the robe of Laodice; she offered it to her Athena,
Sending it to her broad fatherland from divine
When Agapenor did not return home from
Aepytus, the son of Hippothous, dared to enter the sanctuary of Poseidon at
Aepytus was succeeded as king by his son Cypselus, and in his reign the Dorian expedition returned to the
Holaeas was the son of Cypselus, who, aided by the Heracleidae from
In the reign of Simus, the son of Phialus, the people of
After Aeginetes his son Polymestor became king of the Arcadians, and it was then that Charillus and the Lacedaemonians for the first time invaded the land of
Polymestor had no children, and Aechmis succeeded to the throne, who was the son of Briacas, and the nephew of Polymestor. For Briacas too was a son of Aeginetes, but younger than Polymestor. After Aechmis came to the throne occurred the war between the Lacedaemonians and the Messenians. The Arcadians had from the first been friendly to the Messenians, and on this occasion they openly fought against the Lacedaemonians on the side of Aristodemus, the king of
Aristocrates, the son of Aechmis, may have been guilty of outrages against the Arcadians of his most impious acts, however, against the gods I have sure knowledge, and I will proceed to relate them. There is a sanctuary of Artemis, surnamed Hymnia, standing on the borders of
The maiden persisted in resisting the advances of Aristocrates, but at last, when she had taken refuge in the sanctuary, she was outraged by him near the image of Artemis. When the crime came to be generally known, the Arcadians stoned the culprit, and also changed the rule for the future; as priestess of Artemis they now appoint, not a virgin, but a woman who has had enough of intercourse with men.
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