glad
to get hold of an occasion against them. Accordingly they went backward
and forwards to Sparta and accused the Eginetans of that which they had
done, as having proved themselves traitors to Hellas..

50. In consequence of this accusation Cleomenes the son of Anaxandrides,
king of the Spartans, crossed over to Egina meaning to seize those of
the Eginetans who were the most guilty; but as he was attempting
to seize them, certain of the Eginetans opposed him, and among them
especially Crios the son of Polycritos, who said that he should not with
impunity carry off a single Eginetan, for he was doing this (said he)
without authority from the Spartan State, having been persuaded to it by
the Athenians with money; otherwise he would have come and seized them
in company with the other king: and this he said by reason of a message
received from Demaratos. Cleomenes then as he departed from Egina, asked
Crios 33 what was his name, and he told him the truth; and Cleomenes
said to him: "Surely now, O Ram, thou must cover over thy horns with
bronze for thou wilt shortly have a great trouble to contend with."

51. Meanwhile Demaratos the son of Ariston was staying behind in Sparta
and bringing charges against Cleomenes, he also being king of the
Spartans but of the inferior house; which however is inferior in no
other way (for it is descended from the same ancestor), but the house of
Eurysthenes has always been honoured more, apparently because he was the
elder brother..

52. For the Lacedemonians, who herein agree with none of the poets, say
that Aristodemos the son of Aristomachos, the son of Cleodaios, the
son of Hyllos, being their king, led them himself (and not the sons of
Aristodemos) to this land which they now possess. Then after no long
time the wife of Aristodemos, whose name was Argeia,--she was the
daughter, they say, of Autesion, the son of Tisamenes, the son of
Thersander, the son of Polyneikes,--she, it is said, brought forth
twins; and Aristodemos lived but to see his children and then ended his
life by sickness. So the Lacedemonians of that time resolved according
to established custom to make the elder of the children their king; but
they did not know which of them they should take, because they were like
one another and of equal size; and when they were not able to make out,
or even before this, they inquired of their mother; and she said
that even she herself did not know one from the other. She said thi