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(21) fled for refuge. He there reproached with great warmth for aſſuming the rel power, in violation of the ties of affinity  them, and for expelling him from  own country in ſo ignominious a. Cleombrutus, who had nothing to to theſe reproaches, continued ſeated  a profound ſilence, and with an aſpect  ſufficiently teſtified his confufion. His wife Chelonida ſtood near with her two at her feet. She had been equally as a wife and a daughter; but  equally faithful in each of thoſe, and had always adhered to the  ſide. All thoſe who were then preſent into tears at ſo moving a fight, and were ſtruck with admiration at the virtue  tenderneſs of Chelonida, and the  force of conjugal love. The princeſs, pointing to her mourning habit  diſhevelled treſſes, "Believe me, O my !" ſaid ſhe, "this habit of woe which now wear, this dejection which now appears in my countenance, and theſe ſorrows  which you ſee me ſink, are not the  of that compaſſion I entertain for Cleombrutus; but the ſad remains of my  for the calamities you ſuſtained in our flight from Sparta.  On what, alas! ſhall I now reſolve? While you reign for the future in Sparta, and triumph over the enemies who oppoſed you, ſhall I continue to live in the deſolate ſtate to which you ſee