The wrath of the sons of Tyndareus against the Messenians began before the battle in Stenyclerus , and arose, I think, for the following reason. Panormus and Gonippus of Andania , young men in the bloom of youth, were close friends in all things, and marched together into battle and on raids into Laconia .
Description of Greece. Pausanias. W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1935.
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