Note 920 — Chapter VI · Argos
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Paus. IV. 15. 1, 23. 4. This is firmer evidence, pace Hicks, Cambridge Comp. Greek Stud.1 p. 58, n. 3, than Plut. Moral. 194 (Reg. et Imp. Apoph.), where Epaminondas, speaking in 369 B.C., declares “that he had refounded Messene after an interval of 230 years.” Plutarch may equally well be used as evidence that the extinction of archaic Messene did not synchronize with the end of the second Messenian war.