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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt:... That which marks the siege of Miletus, and the defeat of the Argeians by Kleomenes, as contemporaneous, or nearly so, is--the common oracular dictum delivered in reference to both: 4, 1) after the accession of Kleomenes, who, as he was king when Mscandrius came from Samoa (Herodot. iii. 148), must have come to the throne not later than 518 or 517 n.c. This would be in the same prophecy of the Pyt hia, one thirty-seven years prior to 480 B.C.; half alludes to the sufferings of Miletus, a date much too early for th war between Kleomenes and the Argeians, as we may see by Herodotus (vii. 149). Herodot. vi. 92. 8 Herodot. vi. 78; compare Xenophon, Rep. Laced, xii. 6. Orders for evolutions in the field, in the Laeedas I consider this evidence of date to be: monian military service, were not probetter than the statement of Pauaanias. ' claimed by the herald, but transmitted That author places the enterprise against through the various gradations of Argos immediately (airum--PauB. iii.; officers (Thucyd. v. 66). to their eponymous hero Argus. Kleomenes, having enclosed them therein, yet thinking it safer to employ deceit rather than force, ascertained from deserters the names of the chief Argeians thus shut up, and then invited them out successively hy means of a herald--pretending that he had received their ransom, and that they were released. As fast as each man came out, he was put to death; the fate of these unhappy sufferers being concealed from their comrades within the grove by the thickness of the foliage, until some one climbing to the top of a tree detected and proxestructioii claimed the destruction going' on--after about fifty of of the A r-o o J geiansby the victims had perished. Unable to entice any more of in the grove the Argeians from their conse...