Critolāus

, a citizen of Tegea in Arcadia, who, with two brothers, fought against the three sons of Demo stratus of Pheneus, to put an end to the long war between their respective nations. The brothers of Critolaus were both killed, and he alone remained to withstand his three bold antagonists. He conquered them; and when, at his return, his sister deplored the death of one of his antagonists to whom she was betrothed, he killed her in a fit of resentment. The offence deserved capital punishment; but he was pardoned, on account of the services he had rendered his country. He was afterwards general of the Achæans, and it is said that he poisoned himself, because he had been conquered at Thermopylæ by the Romans. Cicero , de Natura Deorum .――A peripatetic philosopher of Athens, sent amba ador to Rome, . , 140 B.C. Cicero , bk. 2 , On Oratory .――An historian who wrote about Epirus.