Page:An Account of Corsica (1769).djvu/100

 and, on that account, having governed the kingdom as their tutor; when they grew up, and became kings of Sparta, Theras scorning to live a private life, and to be under the government of his pupils, determined not to remain at Lacedaemon, but to go and join his kindred in the island of Corsica, then called Callista. Accordingly, he went thither with some chosen companions, not with any intention to drive out the former inhabitants, but, on the contrary, with most friendly dispositions towards them.