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paid a retribution for Demaratos as follows:--he went as commander ofthe Lacedemonians to invade Thessaly, and when he might have reducedall to subjection, he accepted gifts of money amounting to a largesum; and being taken in the act there in the camp, as he was sittingupon a glove full of money, he was brought to trial and banished fromSparta, and his house was razed to the ground. So he went into exileto Tegea and ended his life there. 73. These things happened later;but at this time, when Cleomenes had brought to a successful issue theaffair which concerned Demaratos, forthwith he took with himLeotychides and went against the Eginetans, being very greatly enragedwith them because of their insults towards him. So the Eginetans ontheir part, since both the kings had come against them, thought fit nolonger to resist; and the Spartans selected ten men who were the mostconsiderable among the Eginetans both by wealth and by birth, and tookthem away as prisoners, and among others also Crios[61] the son ofPolycritos and Casambos the son of Aristocrates, who had the greatestpower among them; and having taken these away to the land of Attica,they deposited them as a charge with the Athenians, who were thebitterest enemies of the Eginetans.74. After this Cleomenes, since it had become known that he haddevised evil against Demaratos, was seized by fear of the Spartans andretired to Thessaly. Thence he came to Arcadia, and began to makemischief[62] and to combine the Arcadians against Sparta; and besidesother oaths with which he caused them to swear that they wouldassuredly follow him whithersoever he should lead them, he was verydesirous also to bring the chiefs of the Arcadians to the city ofNonacris and cause them to swear by the water of Styx; for near thiscity it is said by the Arcadians[63] that there is the water of Styx,and there is in fact something of this kind: a small stream of wateris seen to trickle down from a rock into a hollow ravine, and roundthe ravine runs a wall of rough stones. Now Nonacris, where it happensthat this spring is situated, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneos. 75.The Lacedemonians, hearing that Cleomenes was acting thus, wereafraid, and proceeded to bring him back to Sparta to rule on the sameterms as before: but when he had come back, forthwith a disease ofmadness seized him (who had been even before this somewhatinsane[64]), and whenever he met any of the Spartans, he dashed hisstaff against the man's face. And as he continued to do this and hadgone quite out of his senses, his kinsmen bound him in stocks. Thenbeing so bound, and seeing his warder left alone by the rest, he askedhim for a knife; and the warder not being at first willing to give it,he threatened him with that which he would do to him afterwards if hedid not; until at last the warder fearing the threats, for he was oneof the Helots, gave him a knife. Then Cleomenes, when he had receivedthe steel, began to maltreat himself from the legs upwards: for he