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Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 3 (search)
ssapians and Leucanians, and, still before that, for Archidamus,Archidamus III, king of Sparta, was born about 400 B.C. and lost his life in 338 B.C. in this war. the son of Agesilaüs, and, later on, for Cleonymus,Little is know of this Cleonymus, save that he was the son of Cleomenes II, who reigned at Sparta 370-309 B.C. and Agathocles,Agathocles (b. about 361 B.C.—d. 289 B.C.) was a tyrant of Syracuse. He appears to have led the Tarantini about 300 B.C. and then for Pyrrhus,Pyrrhus (about 318-272 B.C.), king of Epeirus, accepted the invitation of Tarentum in 281 B.C. at the time when they formed a league with him against the Romans. And yet even to those whom they called in they could not yield a ready obedience, and would set them at enmity. At all events, it was out of enmity that Alexander tried to transfer to Thurian territory the general festival assembly of all Greek peoples in that part of the world—the assembly which was wont to meet at Heracleia in Tarantine territory,
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Pyrrhus (search)
Pyrrhus （318-272), king of Epirus, descended from Achilles and Aeacus, 1.38. a daring soldier and a gallant enemy, 1.38. a career of adventure and conquest, 1.38; 3.86. invaded Italy (280-275); the story of the poisoner, 1.40; 3.86; (see also Fabricius); invaded Macedonia (273) and the enemy's troops joined him, 2.26. killed in Argos (272)