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CLEOMENES

Volume 6 · 52 words · 1842 Edition

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