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When the Lacedaemonians learned that Cleomenes was doing this, they took fright and brought him back to Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta to rule on the same terms as before. Cleomenes had already been not entirely in his right mind, and on his return from exile a mad sickness fell upon him: any Spartan that he happened to meet he would hit in the face with his staff.
When the Lacedaemonians learned that Cleomenes was doing this, they took fright and brought him back to Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta to rule on the same terms as before. Cleomenes had already been not entirely in his right mind, and on his return from exile a mad sickness fell upon him: any Spartan that he happened to meet he would hit in the face with his staff.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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