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Agis

King of Sparta, who tried to deliver Greece from the Macedonian yoke, and was slain in the attempt.

To save a rotten state, Agis, who saw
E'en Sparta's self to servile avarice sink.

—Thompson: Winter, 488–9.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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