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[2] But since civil war broke out in Arcadia on a large scale and the quarrelling factions came to a decision by force of arms, many were killed and more than fourteen hundred fled, some to Sparta, others to Pallantium.1

1 Arcadian town just west of Tegea, said to have been the home of Evander and origin of the name Palatine (Vergil Aeneid 8.51-54).

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