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Isagoras in his turn lost ground; and therefore, to counter-plot his
enemy, he called in Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, who had already,
at the time when he was besieging the Pisistratidae, made a contract
of friendship with him. A charge is even brought against Cleomenes
that he was on terms of too great familiarity with Isagoras's wife.
At this time the first thing that he did was to send a herald and
require that Clisthenes, and a large number of Athenians besides,
whom he called "The Accursed," should leave Athens. This message
he sent at the suggestion of Isagoras: for in the affair referred to,
the blood-guiltiness lay on the Alcmaeonidae and their partisans,
while he and his friends were quite clear of it.
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