(), a Messenian, and the conqueror in the 4th
Olympiad (B. C. 764), is celebrated as the immediate cause of the
first Messenian war, B. C. 743. Having been wronged by the
Lacedaemonian Euaephnus, he took revenge by aggressions upon other Lacedaemonians ; and as the
Messenians would not deliver him up to the Spartans, war was eventually declared by the latter
against Messenia. (Paus. 4.4.5, &c.)