uls to thee, bright goddess, bring;
He beat Antigonus, with all his men:
Achilles' sons are warriors now as then."

After the battle he at once recovered the cities on the seaboard. He
took AEgae, treated the inhabitants very harshly, and left a garrison of
Celtic mercenary troops in the town. These Gauls, with the insatiate
greed for money for which that nation is noted, proceeded to break
open the sepulchres of the Macedonian kings who were buried there, in
search of plunder, and wantonly scattered their bones. Pyrrhus seemed
but little disturbed at this outrage, either because his affairs gave
him no leisure to think about it, or because he thought it dangerous
to punish his barbarian allies: but the Macedonians were deeply
grieved by it. And yet, although he was far from being firmly
established in his new kingdom, he was already forming new schemes of
conquest. In raillery he called Antigonus a shameless man because he
had not yet laid aside the royal purple for the dress of a private
man, and he eagerly accepted the invitation of Kleonymus the Spartan
to go and attack Lacedaemon. This Kleonymus was by birth the rightful
heir to the throne, but being thought to be a violent and tyrannical
person he was hated and distrusted by the Spartans, who had chosen his
nephew Areus to be their king. This was the reason of his having long
borne a grudge against his countrymen, but besides this his feelings
had been recently wounded by a family quarrel.

Kleonymus, now an elderly man, had married a beautiful wife of the
royal blood, Chilonis, the daughter of Leotychides. She fell madly in
love with Akrotatus, the son of Areus, a youth in the flower of his
age, and the dishonour of Kleonymus became notorious all over Sparta.
This private wrong, added to his previous exclusion from the throne,
so enraged him, that he invited Pyrrhus to attack Sparta, which he did
with an army of twenty-five thousand foot, two thousand horse, and
twenty-four elephants, so that it was obvious that he did not mean to
gain Sparta for Kleonymus, but to conquer the whole of Peloponnesus
for himself, although he answered some Spartan envoys who waited on
him at Megalopolis in specious language, stating that he had come with
the intention of restoring to freedom the cities which were held in
subjection by Antigonus, and actually going so far as to tell them
that, if possible, he intended to send his younger sons to Sparta to
be trained in the L