Pleistoanax · Atlas

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

Earlier king of the Lacedaemonians whose invasion of Attica fourteen years before the present war ended in a retreat from Eleusis, leading to his banishment from Sparta on suspicion of having been bribed.

remembering the case of Pleistoanax, the son of Pausanias, the king of the Lacedaemonians, when with a Peloponnesian army he made an inroad into Attica, as far as Eleusis and Thria, fourteen years before this war, and retired again without advancing any further (for which reason indeed he was banished from Sparta, as he was thought to have been bribed to make the retreat).

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that they should bring back the seed of the demigod son of Jupiter from a foreign land to his own;

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Pleistoanax, Agis, Pleistolas, Damagetus, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antippus, Alcinadas, Tellis, Empedias, Menas, and Laphilus:

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