<head>Cruelty of the Wife of Nabis at Argos</head>Nabis the tyrant, leaving Timocrates of Pellen in command of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a>, as he placed the greatest reliance on him and employed him in the most ambitious of his enterprises, returned to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>
and after some days sent off his own wife, ordering her upon reaching <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a> to set about raising money.
Upon her arrival she greatly surpassed Nabis in cruelty.
For summoning the women, some of them singly and others with their families, she subjected them to every kind of outrage and violence
until she had stripped them nearly all not only of their gold ornaments, but of their most precious clothing. . . .
Attalus, discoursing at some length, reminded them of the valour their ancestors had always displayed.
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