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For after the Achaeans had received the city from Antigonus as a present and had decided to colonize it, Aratus himself was chosen to be the founder of the new settlement, and being then general, got a decree passed that the city should no longer be called Mantineia, but Antigoneia, and this is its name down to the present time. And so it was due to Aratus that the name of lovely MantineiaHomer, Iliad, ii. 607. was altogether extinguished, and the city continues to bear the name of him who destroyed and slew its former citizens.The old name of the city was restored by the Emperor Hadrian, Pausanias, viii. 8. 12.
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After this, Cleomenes, having been defeated in a great battle at Sellasia,In 221 B.C., cf. the Cleomenes, xxviii. ff. forsook Sparta and sailed off to Egypt, and Antigonus, after having accorded to Aratus fair and kindly treatment in every way, led his army back to Macedonia. There, being now a sick man, he sent Philip, his successor in the kingdom, who was still a stripling, into the Peloponnesus, and urged him to attach himself to Aratus above all others, and through him to deal with the cities and make the acquaintance of the Achaeans.
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And indeed Aratus did take the prince in hand, and managed matters so as to send him back to Macedonia full of great goodwill towards his patron and of ardour and ambition for the conduct of Hellenic affairs.
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But upon the death of AntigonusIn 221 B.C. See the Cleomenes, xxx. the Aetolians, despising the Achaeans on account of their slothful ways (for now that they were accustomed to save themselves by other men’s prowess and had taken shelter behind the Macedonian arms, they were living in great inactivity and lack of discipline), proceeded to interfere in the affairs of Peloponnesus;In 22o B.C. See the Cleomenes, xxxiv. 1. and after plundering the territories of Patrae and Dyme on their way, they invaded Messenia and ravaged it.
