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King of Sparta, who tried to deliver Greece from the Macedonian yoke, and was slain in the attempt.
“To save a rotten state, Agis, who saw
Eʹen Sparta’s self to servile a varice sink.”
Thomson: Winter, 488–9.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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