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 DISCORD OF KLEOMENES AND DEMARATUS. 325 sive force of Greece. The ships which Kleomenes had obtained from the ^ginetans as well as from the Sikyonians, against their own will, for landing his troops at Nauplia, brought upon both these cities the enmity of Argos, which the Sikyonians compro- mised by paying a sum of money, while the JEginetans refused to do so. 1 And thus the circumstances of the Kleomenic war had I he effect not only of enfeebling Argos, but of alienating her from natural allies and supporters, and clearing the ground for undisputed Spartan primacy. Returning now to the complaint preferred by Athens to the Spartans against the traitorous submission of ^Egina to Darius, we find that king Kleomenes passed immediately over to that island for the purpose of inquiry and punishment. He was pro- ceeding to seize and carry away as prisoners several of the lead- ing JEginetans, when Krius and some others among them opposed to him a menacing resistance, telling him that he came without any regular warrant from Sparta and under the influence of Athenian bribes, that, in order to carry authority, both the Spartan kings ought to come together. It was not of their own accord that the ^Eginetans ventured to adopt so dangerous a course. Demaratus, the colleague of Kleomenes in the junior or Prokleid line of kings, had suggested to them the step and promised to carry them through it safely. 2 Dissension between the two coordinate kings was no new phenomenon at Sparta ; but in the case of Demaratus and Kleomenes, it had broken out some years previously on the occasion of the march against Attica ; and Demaratus, hating his colleague more than ever, entered into the present intrigue with the ^Eginetans with the deliberate purpose of frustrating his intervention. Pie succeed- ed, and Kleomenes was compelled to return to Sparta ; not with- out unequivocal menace against Krius and the other JEginetans who had repelled him, 3 and not without a thorough determination to depose Demaratus. It appears that suspicions had always attached to the lesriti- Herodol i, 92. 1 Herodoi vi, 50. Kplof Iheye tie ravra it; i?iaTo%?je Trie Compare Fausan. iii. 4, 3.
 * Heralot. vi, 50-61, 64. AnuanvTO< dtfavw n