Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Cleomenes surprises Megalopolis by night and seizes the agora; Philopoemen helps; Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Cleomenes…
Cleomenes surprises Megalopolis by night and seizes the agora; Philopoemen helps
ἤδη δὲ αὐτοῦ τριάκοντα ἔτη γεγονότος Κλεομένης ὁ βασιλεὺς Λακεδαιμονίων νυκτὸς ἐξαίφνης προσπεσὼν τῇ Μεγάλῃ πόλει καὶ τὰς φυλακὰς βιασάμενος ἐντὸς παρῆλθε καὶ…
Location: Plut. Philopoemen 5
Cleomenes attacks Megalopolis and captures some of its leading men
ὀλίγοι δὲ παντάπασιν ἥλωσαν, ὧν ἦν Λυσανδρίδας τε καὶ Θεαρίδας, ἄνδρες ἔνδοξοι καὶ δυνατοὶ μάλιστα τῶν Μεγαλοπολιτῶν.
Location: Plut. Agis&Cleomenes 24
Cleomenes takes Megalopolis by surprise
τῆς δʼ ἡμέρας ἐπιγενομένης παρʼ ὀλίγον ἦλθε τοῦ μὴ μόνον ἐκπεσεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ὅλοις κινδυνεῦσαι διὰ τὴν εὐψυχίαν τῶν Μεγαλοπολιτῶν.
Location: 2.55
Place: Megalopolis
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