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Aratus of Sicyon

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[uh-rey-tuhs uhv sish-ee-on, sis-, uh-rah-] / əˈreɪ təs əv ˈsɪʃ iˌɒn, ˈsɪs-, əˈrɑ- /

noun

  1. 271–213 b.c., Greek general: leader of the Achaean League.


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Aratus of Sicyon, who had brought Sicyon into the league, delivered Corinth from the Macedonians.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

The former states that a slow poison, which occasioned heat, a cough, spitting of blood, a consumption, and weakness of intellect, was administered to Aratus of Sicyon.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An

In secret nocturnal enterprises of this sort, no man was ever more successful than Aratus of Sicyon, although in any encounter by day there never was a more arrant coward.

From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Thomson, Ninian Hill

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