John Cairns’s Reviews > Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus > Status Update

One king expelled the ephors and at once began plotting against the life of the other king. A friend had been the king's lover or inspirer as it was called it. One a dead king had 'inspired' slew himself over the body. With five thousand that king had outfaced twenty thousand Achaeans. Who murdered a king restored his brother and put him to death. Plutarch derides Spartan worship of death as that sort of thing.