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Polybius, Histories, book 4, Strength and Weakness of Aratus (search)
bly voted to give assistance to the Messenians: that the
Strategus should summon a general levy of the Achaean
arms: and that whatever was decided by this levy, when it met,
should be done. Now Timoxenus, the existing Strategus, was
just on the point of quitting office, and felt besides small confidence in the Achaeans, because martial exercise had been
allowed to fall into neglect among them; he therefore shrank
from undertaking the expedition, or from even summoning
the popular levy. B. C. 222-221. The fact was that, after the expulsion
of Cleomenes, King of Sparta, the Peloponnesians, weary of the wars that had taken
place, and trusting to the peaceful arrangement that had
been come to, neglected all warlike preparations. Aratus,
however, indignant and incensed at the audacity of the
Aetolians, was not inclined to take things so calmly,
for he had in fact a grudge of long standing against these
people. Wherefore he was for instantly summoning the
Achaeans to an armed levy, and was