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of all the Spartan kings brought honour to his country by winning at
Olympia the prize in the four-horse chariot-race.
After Demaratus was deposed, Leotychides, the son of Menares,
received the kingdom. He had a son, Zeuxidamus, called Cyniscus by
many of the Spartans. This Zeuxidamus did not reign at Sparta, but
died before his father, leaving a son, Archidamus. Leotychides, when
Zeuxidamus was taken from him, married a second wife, named
Eurydame, the sister of Menius and daughter of Diactorides. By her
he had no male offspring, but only a daughter called Lampito, whom
he gave in marriage to Archidamus, Zeuxidamus' son.
Even Leotychides, however, did not spend his old age in Sparta,
but suffered a punishment whereby Demaratus was fully avenged. He
commanded the Lacedaemonians when they made war against Thessaly,
and might have conquered the whole of it, but was bribed by a large
sum of money. It chanced that he was caught in the fact, being found
sitting in his tent on a gauntlet, quite full of silver. Upon this
he was brought to trial and banished from Sparta; his house was
razed to the ground; and he himself fled to Tegea, where he ended
his days. But these events took place long afterwards.
At the time of which we are speaking, Cleomenes, having carried
his proceedings in the matter of Demaratus to a prosperous issue,
forthwith took Leotychides with him, and crossed over to attack the
Eginetans; for his anger was hot against them on account of the
affront which they had formerly put upon him. Hereupon the
Eginetans, seeing that both the kings were come against them,
thought it best to make no further resistance. So the two kings picked
out from all Egina the ten men who for wealth and birth stood the
highest, among whom were Crius, son of Polycritus, and Casambus, son
of Aristocrates, who wielded the chief power; and these men they
carried with them to Attica, and there deposited them in the hands
of the Athenians, the great enemies of the Eginetans.
Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil arts had been
used against Demaratus, Cleomenes was seized with fear of his own
countrymen, and fled into Thessaly. From thence he passed into
Arcadia, where he began to stir up troubles, and endeavoured to
unite the Arcadians against Sparta. He bound them by various oaths
to follow him whithersoever he should lead, and was even desirous of
taking their chief leaders with him to the city of Nonacris, that he
might swear them to his cause by the waters of the Styx. For the
waters of Styx, as the Arcadians say, are in that city, and this is
the appearance they present: you see a little water, dripping from a
rock into a basin, which is fenced round by a low wall. Nonacris,
where this fountain is to be seen, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneus.
When the Lacedaemonians heard how Cleomenes was engaged, they
were afraid, and agreed with him that he should come back to Sparta
and be king as before. So Cleomenes came back; but had no sooner
returned than he, who had never been altogether of sound mind, was
smitten with downright madness. This he showed by striking every
Spartan he met upon the face with his sceptre. On his behaving thus,
and showing that he was gone quite out of his mind, his kindred
imprisoned him, and even put his feet in the stocks. While so bound,
finding himself left alone with a single keeper, he asked the man
for a knife. The keeper at first refused, whereupon Cleomenes began to
threaten him, until at last he was afraid, being only a helot, and
gave him what he required. Cleomenes had no sooner got the steel than,
beginning at his legs, he horribly disfigured himself, cutting
gashes in his flesh, along his legs, thighs, hips, and loins, until at
last he reached his belly, which he likewise began to gash,
whereupon in a little time he died. The Greeks generally think that
this fate came upon him because he induced the Pythoness to
pronounce against Demaratus; the Athenians differ from all others in
saying that it was because he cut down the sacred grove of the
goddesses when he made his invasion by Eleusis; while the Argives
ascribe it to his having taken from their refuge and cut to pieces