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 | | CLEOMENES III., the son and successor of Leonidas ii., reigned about 235219 B.C. iTe made a determined attempt to reform the social condition of Sparta along the lines laid down by Agis IV., whose widow Agiatis he married; at the same time he aimed at restoring Spartas hegemony in the Peloponnese. |
 | | After twice defeating the forces of the Achacan League in Arcadia, near Mount Lycaeum and at Leuctra,he strengthened his position by assassinating four of the ephors, abolishing the ephorate, which had usurped the supreme power, and banishing some eighty of the leading oligarchs. |
 | | 9; Gehlert, De Cleomene (Leipzig, 1883); Holm, History of Greece, iv. |
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