The Histories · 5.48

In this manner Dorieos ended his life: but if he had endured to be a subject of Cleomenes and had remained in Sparta, he would have been king of Lacedemon; for Cleomenes reigned no very long time, and died leaving no son to succeed him but a daughter only, whose name was Gorgo.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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