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to have already distinguished himself on many occasions in war when the young king first began to engage in his constitutional reforms. Hippomedon entered warmly into the schemes of Agis, and was mainly instrumental in gaining over his father Agesilaus to their support. But the latter sought in fact
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was recalled by the opposite party, and Agesilaus was compelled to flee the city. Hippomedon shared in the exile of his father, though he had not participated in his unpopularity. At a subsequent period he was the governor of those cities of
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a powerful position under Agis, but Agesilaus mismanaged affairs and they were exiled. Subsequently, Hippomedon was appointed as governor of the cities of
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in 219 BC, when the crown would have devolved of right either to him or to one of his two grandchildren, the sons of
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only his own advantage, under the cloak of patriotism; and during the absence of Agis, on his expedition to
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Agis IV
Sparta
Agesilaus
Thrace
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Agesilaus
Agis IV
Plutarch
Corinth
Aratus
Sparta
Leonidas II
Thrace
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Polybius
Cleomenes III
Archidamus V
Lycurgus
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