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Demaratus
Exiled Spartan king at the court of Xerxes, the one counselor who told the truth — that the Greeks at Thermopylae would halt the vast Persian host; rewarded for his candor.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §6.31.4 Demaratus the Lacedaemonian
Exiled Spartan king at Xerxes' court, the lone truthful counselor, who foretold that three hundred Spartans would check the Persian host.