percalos

Updated: January 21, 2026

Demaratus had not only prevented the marriage of Leotychides with a maiden named Percalos, but, by a mixture of violence and artifice, married her himself. Thus, even among the sober and unloving Spartans, woman could still be the author of revolutions.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete