After no long time the second wife gave birth to Cleomenes. She, then, gave the Spartans an heir to the royal power, and as luck would have it, the first wife, who had been barren before, conceived at that very time.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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