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place and others to another throughout Hellas, bidding them demandearth and water for the king. These, I say, he sent to Hellas; andmeanwhile he was sending abroad other heralds to his own tributarycities which lay upon the sea-coast, and he bade them have ships ofwar built and also vessels to carry horses. 49. They then were engagedin preparing these things; and meanwhile when the heralds had come toHellas, many of those who dwelt upon the mainland gave that for whichthe Persian made demand,[32] and all those who dwelt in the islandsdid so, to whomsoever they came to make their demand. The islanders, Isay, gave earth and water to Dareios, and among them also those ofEgina, and when these had done so, the Athenians went forthwith urgentagainst them, supposing that the Eginetans had given with hostilepurpose against themselves, in order to make an expedition againstthem in combination with the Persians; and also they were glad to gethold of an occasion against them. Accordingly they went backward andforwards to Sparta and accused the Eginetans of that which they haddone, as having proved themselves traitors to Hellas. 50. Inconsequence of this accusation Cleomenes the son of Anaxandrides, kingof the Spartans, crossed over to Egina meaning to seize those of theEginetans who were the most guilty; but as he was attempting to seizethem, certain of the Eginetans opposed him, and among them especiallyCrios the son of Polycritos, who said that he should not with impunitycarry off a single Eginetan, for he was doing this (said he) withoutauthority from the Spartan State, having been persuaded to it by theAthenians with money; otherwise he would have come and seized them incompany with the other king: and this he said by reason of a messagereceived from Demaratos. Cleomenes then as he departed from Egina,asked Crios[33] what was his name, and he told him the truth; andCleomenes said to him: "Surely now, O Ram, thou must cover over thyhorns with bronze for thou wilt shortly have a great trouble tocontend with."51. Meanwhile Demaratos the son of Ariston was staying behind inSparta and bringing charges against Cleomenes, he also being king ofthe Spartans but of the inferior house; which however is inferior inno other way (for it is descended from the same ancestor), but thehouse of Eurysthenes has always been honoured more, apparently becausehe was the elder brother. 52. For the Lacedemonians, who herein agreewith none of the poets, say that Aristodemos the son of Aristomachos,the son of Cleodaios, the son of Hyllos, being their king, led themhimself (and not the sons of Aristodemos) to this land which they nowpossess. Then after no long time the wife of Aristodemos, whose namewas Argeia,--she was the daughter, they say, of Autesion, the son ofTisamenes, the son of Thersander, the son of Polyneikes,--she, it issaid, brought forth twins; and Aristodemos lived but to see hischildren and then ended his life by sickness. So the Lacedemonians of