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1. One of the twin sons of Aristodemus, who, according to the tradition respecting the
Dorian conquest of Peloponnesus, on the death of their father, inherited jointly his share of
the conquered territory, and became the ancestor of the two royal families of Sparta. Procles
was usually regarded as the younger of the two brothers. The line of kings descended from him
was called, after his son or grandson Eurypon, the Eurypontidae. (