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Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil arts had been used
against Demaratus, Cleomenes was seized with fear of his own
countrymen, and fled into Thessaly. From thence he passed into
Arcadia, where he began to stir up troubles, and endeavoured to unite
the Arcadians against Sparta. He bound them by various oaths to
follow him whithersoever he should lead, and was even desirous of
taking their chief leaders with him to the city of Nonacris, that he
might swear them to his cause by the waters of the Styx. For the
waters of Styx, as the Arcadians say, are in that city, and this is
the appearance they present: you see a little water, dripping from a
rock into a basin, which is fenced round by a low wall. Nonacris,
where this fountain is to be seen, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneus.
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