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Execution of Aristomachus
Again Phylarchus says that Aristomachus the Argive,
Aristomachus.
a man of a most distinguished family, who
had been despot of Argos, as his fathers had
been before him, upon falling into the hands of Antigonus
and the league "was hurried off to Cenchreae and there
racked to death,—an unparalleled instance of injustice and
cruelty." But in this matter also our author preserves his
peculiar method. He makes up a story about certain
cries of this man, when he was on the rack, being heard
through the night by the neighbours: "some of whom," he
says, "rushed to the house in their horror, or incredulity,
or indignation at the outrage." As for the sensational story,
let it pass; I have said enough on that point. But I must
express my opinion that, even if Aristomachus had committed
no crime against the Achaeans besides, yet his whole life and
his treason to his own country deserved the heaviest possible
punishment. And in order, forsooth, to enhance this man's
rep
Cleomenes Invades Argos
Megalopolis having fallen, then, Antigonus spent the
B. C. 222. Cleomenes invades Argos.
winter at Argos. But at the approach of spring
Cleomenes collected his army, addressed a
suitable exhortation to them, and led them into
the Argive territory. Most people thought this a hazardous
and foolhardy step, because the places at which the frontier
was crossed were strongly fortified; but those who were
capable of judging regarded the measure as at once safe and
prudent. For seeing that Antigonus had dismissed his forces,
he reckoned on two things,—there would be no one to resist
him, and therefore he would run no risk; and when the
Argives found that their territory was being laid waste up to
their walls, they would be certain to be roused to anger and to
lay the blame upon Antigonus: therefore, if on the one hand
Antigonus, unable to bear the complaints of the populace, were
to sally forth and give him battle with his present forces, Cleomenes felt sure of an easy