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Headword:
*kleome/nhs
Adler number: kappa,1723
Translated headword: Kleomenes, Cleomenes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man devised a plot against
Ptolemy Philopator; though he came to a bad end, he had been a man both adroit in his dealings and adept in his management of affairs -- in short, with the natural qualities of a leader and a king.
There is [material] about this man under "not walking without a stick".[1]
*kleome/nhs: ou(=to/s e)stin o( *ptolemai/w| tw=| *filopa/tori e)piboulh\n tekthna/menos: o(\s kakw=s meth/llace to\n bi/on, a)nh\r geno/menos kai\ pro\s ta\s o(mili/as e)pide/cios kai\ pro\s pragma/twn oi)konomi/an eu)fuh\s kai\ sullh/bdhn h(gemoniko\s kai\ basiliko\s th=| fu/sei. e)/sti peri\ tou/tou e)n tw=| a)/neu cu/lou mh\ badi/zein.
Notes:
After the introductory clause, the source becomes
Polybius 5.39.6. Date: 220s BCE.
The Suda ignores Kleomenes III's career as king of
Sparta c.235-222 (for which see
Polybius 2.46-70, 5.35-9;
Plutarch,
Agis and Kleomenes) and focuses on the end of his life. After the Macedonians defeated the Spartans at
Sellasia, Kleomenes escaped to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt,
Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here.
[1]
alpha 2345.
Cartledge, P., and Spawforth, A. (2002), Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities, 2nd edn (London and New York), 38-58
Shipley, G. (2000), The Greek World after Alexander (London and New York), 143-7
Keywords: biography; ethics; historiography; history; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 July 2001@09:56:09.
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