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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Cleo- being deceased, and he himself also come unto the menesdid crown, finding that the citizens of Sparta at that set the tjme were very dissolute, that the rich men followed Lacedae-, ., ', ]., . c, monians teir pleasure and profit, taking no care for the and commonwealth, that the poor men also for very Achaians want and need, went with no good life and courage to the wars, neither cared for the bringing up of their children, and that he himself had but the name of a king, and the Ephori the absolute authority to do what they listed: at his first coming to his kingdom, he determined to alter the whole state and government of the commonwealth. Who having a friend called Xenares, that had been his lover in his youth (which the Lacedaemonians called Empnistse, as much as inspired) he began to sound his opinion, asking what manner of man King Agis had been, and by what reason, and whose advice he had followed in his attempt for the reformation of the commonwealth. Xenares at the first did not willingly rehearse these things unto him, declaring everything what had passed. But when he found that Cleomenes was affected unto King Agis' intent, and still desired to hear of it: then Xenares sharply and angrily reproved him, and told him he was not wise, nor well advised, and at length would no more come and talk with him as he was wont, yet making no man privy why he abstained from coming to him but told them that asked him, He knew a cause well enough why. Xenares now having thus refused him, and thinking all the rest would do the like: to bring this matter to pass, he took this resolution with himself. Because he thought he might the rather do it in war, than in peace, he set the cityof Sparta and the Achaians at variance together: together who did themselves give the first o...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458842954 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458842959 |
| Weight | 0.93 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 284 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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