Cleomenes III
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Sparta also is a power which can cross swords with the Macedonian king, and Cleomenes III. aspires to unite the Peloponnesus under his headship.
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Cleomenes III murdered the whole college and abolished the office.
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In 227 he was recalled by Cleomenes III., who was then reigning without a colleague, but shortly after his return he was assassinated.
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Agesilaus, Cleomenes III., and Agis III. belonged; and the greater number of the later kings retained, up to the last period, a genuine Spartan disposition, which we find expressed in many nervous and pithy apophthegms.
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Still, if we justly estimate the manners of that city, they do not deserve the name of needless austerity and strictness; it was the only Greek state in which a statue was erected to Laughter:1782 in late times even Agesilaus1783 and Cleomenes III.1784 amidst all the changes of their life, cheered their companions with wit and playfulness.
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