. A history of Greece for junior classes . n a marvellous manner. He rejoined his men atEira, and after many adventures and successes, he some-how or other incurred the anger of the gods. Eii-a hadbeen besieged for eleven years, and was at last deliveredby treachery into tlie hands of the besiegers. Aristo-menes, ^ith a few followers, had forced his way throughthe besiegers, and escaped into Arkadia, whence aftei-wardshe invaded Lakonia, and was killed, sword in hand. After this war all tlie .Messenians remaining in thecountry were reduced to the condition of Helots; therest emigiated, and som
. A history of Greece for junior classes . n a marvellous manner. He rejoined his men atEira, and after many adventures and successes, he some-how or other incurred the anger of the gods. Eii-a hadbeen besieged for eleven years, and was at last deliveredby treachery into tlie hands of the besiegers. Aristo-menes, ^ith a few followers, had forced his way throughthe besiegers, and escaped into Arkadia, whence aftei-wardshe invaded Lakonia, and was killed, sword in hand. After this war all tlie .Messenians remaining in thecountry were reduced to the condition of Helots; therest emigiated, and some of them sailed to Rhegium insouthern Italy, and then made themselves masters of thetown of Zankle on the opposite coast of Sicily, which washenceforth called Messana (the modem Messina). After the final conquest of Messenia, Sparta rapidlyrose to a prominent position in Greece ; she began to inter-fere in the affairs of other states, and to exercise a kindof supremacy, to which the smaller states, willingly orunwillingly, had to
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