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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: Cleonymus. The first died before his father, but left a son
called Areus, who succeeded, and being slain at Corinth, left
the kingdom to his son Acrotatus. This Acrotatus was defeated,
and slain near Megalopolis, in a battle against the tyrant
Aristodemus; he left his wife big with child, and on her being
delivered of a son, Leonidas, son of the above-named Cleonymus,
was made his guardian, and as the young king died before
becoming a man, he succeeded in the kingdom.
Leonidas was a king not particularly suitable to his people.
For though there were at that time at Sparta a general decline
in manners, yet a greater revolt from the old habits appeared in
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