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Volume 6 · 50 words · 1823 Edition

king of Sparta, conquered the Argives, and freed Athens from the tyranny of the Pisistratide. By bribing the oracle, he pronounced Demaratus, his colleague on the throne, illegitimate, because he refused to punish the people of Aegina, who had deserted the Greeks. He killed himself in a fit of madness.