Agis and Cleomenes

and Cleombrotus, in turn, had two sons, Agesipolis and Cleomenes, of whom Agesipolis reigned only a short time and left no sons, while Cleomenes, who became king after him, lived to lose his elder son Acrotatus, but left behind him a younger son Cleonymus Cleonymus, however, did not come to the throne, but Areus,[*](See the Pyrrhus, xxvi. 8ff. ) who was a grandson of Cleomenes and son of Acrotatus; Areus fell in battle at Corinth,[*](In 265 B.C., in battle with Antigonus Gonatas.) and his son Acrotatus came to the throne;