...the daughter of Aristomenes, lest it should seem to be irrelevant. Now the Lacedaemonians, gaining possession of Messenia, divided it all among themselves, except the land belonging to the people of Asine ; but they gave Mothone to the men of Nauplia, who had recently been driven from their town by the Argives. The Messenians who were captured in the country, reduced by force to the position of serfs...