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Not long after these events the astronomer Eudoxus was famed in the land of Greece, the Lacedaemonians were defeated by the Athenians at Corinth under the lead of Phormio, 429 B.C. and at Rome Marcus Manlius, who during the siege of the Capitol had repulsed the Gauls as they were climbing up its steep cliffs, was convicted of having formed the design of making himself king. Marcus Varro says Annales iii, frag. 2. Peter2. In 384 B.C. that he was condemned to death and hurled from the Tarpeian rock; but Cornelius Nepos has written Chron., frag. 5, Peter.2 that he was scourged to death. In the very same year, which was the seventh after the recovery of the city, it is recorded that the philosopher Aristotle was born. 384 B.C.
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Next, some years after the war with the Senones, the Thebans defeated the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra 371 B.C. under the lead of Epaminondas, and a little later in the city of Rome the law of Licinius Stolo provided for the elections of consuls also from the plebeians, 317 B.C. whereas before that time it was not lawful for a consul to be chosen except from the patrician familiisfamilies.
