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Lycurgus Returns to Sparta
Just at the beginning of this summer, while Agetas
B.C. 217. Greece. Return of Lycurgus to Sparta. He projects an invasion of Messenia.
was Strategus of the Aetolians, and when Aratus
had just become Strategus of the Achaean
league,—at which point we broke off in our
history of the Social war,See ante, ch. 30. Agetas had been elected Aetolian Strategus in the
autumn of 218 B.C., Aratus Achaean Strategus in the early summer of B.C.
217.—Lycurgus of Sparta
returned home from Aetolia. The Ephors had
discovered that the charge on which he had
been banished was false; and had accordingly sent for him
back, and recalled him from exile. He at once began making
an arrangement with Pyrrhias the Aetolian, who happened at
the time to be commander in Elis, for an invasion of Messenia.
Now, when Aratas came into office, he found the
mercenary army of the league in a state of
complete demoralisation, and the cities very
slack to pay the tax for their support, owing to the