6. An historian, the son of Hipparchus, and a Spartan, wrote a work on Lacedaemonian affairs (Λακωνικά), of which Athenaeus (iii. p. 82e.) quotes the fourth book, and which is also referred to by Plutarch (Plut. Lyc. 4, 31, Philop. 16), and other writers. (Steph. s. v. Ἀβάντις; Schol. ad Soph. Trach. 270.)