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Areus

Ἀρεύς

(Ἀρεύς), a Spartan exile, who was restored to his country with Alcibiades, another exile [see p. 100a.], about B. C. 184, by the Achaeans, but afterwards went as ambassador to Rome to accuse the Achaeans. (Plb. 23.11, 12, 24.4; Liv. 39.35; Paus. 7.9.2.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.