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Cleomenes wanted revenge, so he made a deal with Leotychides son of Menares son of Agis, of the same family as Demaratus. The deal was that Leotychides would go with Cleomenes against the Aeginetans if he became king.
Cleomenes wanted revenge, so he made a deal with Leotychides son of Menares son of Agis, of the same family as Demaratus. The deal was that Leotychides would go with Cleomenes against the Aeginetans if he became king.
[2]
Leotychides had already become strongly hostile to
Demaratus for the following reason:
Leotychides was betrothed to
Percalus, daughter of
Demarmenus, but
Demaratus plotted and robbed him of his marriage, stealing
Percalus and marrying her first.
[3] From this affair
Leotychides was hostile toward
Demaratus, so at
Cleomenes' instigation he took an oath against him, saying that he was not king of the
Spartans by right, since he was not
Ariston's son. After making this oath, he prosecuted him, recalling that utterance which
Ariston had made when the servant told him he had a son, and he counted up the months and swore that it was not his.
[4] Taking his stand on this remark,
Leotychides declared that
Demaratus was not
Ariston's son and that he was not rightly king of
Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta, bringing as witnesses the ephors who had been sitting beside
Ariston and heard him say this.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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