The Twitter Herodotus

6.71 Leotychides succeeded to the throne and left behind a son, Archidemus, and a daughter, Lampito.

6.72 Leotychidae was not destined to die in Sparta. He was caught taking a bribe and was banished. He fled to Tegea, where he died.

6.73 But that was later. Now, Leotychides and Cleomenes went to Aegina and took hostages, which they handed over to the Athenians.

6.74 Later the truth re. what Cleomenes did to Demaratus came out. C. fled to Arcadia, where he tried to unite the Arcadians against Sparta.

6.75 The Spartans took him back, but he went mad & killed himself. The Argives say this was because he'd killed their men in a sacred grove.

6.76 You see, Delphi had told Cleomenes he would take Argos. The omens didn't let him cross a river into Argos, so he went down to the sea.

6.77 The Argives came & camped opposite them. Whenever the Spartan herald gave the Spartans an order, the Argives also did what was ordered.

6.78 Cleomenes figured this out and told his men to attack when he gave the order for breakfast. When they did, many Argives hid in a grove.

6.79 Cleomenes tricked them, calling men out by name and saying that they’d be ransomed. He killed about fifty men this way.

6.80 Then C. burned the grove down. He was sad to learn it was sacred to Argus: a prophecy had said he'd take Argos; he'd wanted the city.