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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Example Sentences

Plutarch relates that Philip, King of Macedonia, when sacrificing an ox on the Ithomæa, with Aratus of Sicyon and Demetrius of Pharos, wished to inquire out from the entrails of the victim concerning the wisdom of a piece of strategy.

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

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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.

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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.

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The Achaean towns, now only ten in number, as two had been destroyed by earthquakes, began gradually to coalesce again; but Aratus of Sicyon, one of the most remarkable characters of this period of Grecian history, was the man who, about the year 251 B.C., first called the new league into active political existence.

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