Machanida — tyrant of Lacedaemon about the beginning of the second century BC, was originally, perhaps, the…
Ancient Greek word, found 13 times in the texts on Socratos.
Plutarch, Philopoemen 10.1: ἦν δὲ τότε τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς ὁ πρὸς Μαχανίδαν πόλεμος τὸν Λακεδαιμονίων τύραννον, ἀπὸ πολλῆς καὶ μεγάλης δυνάμεως ἐπιβουλεύοντα πᾶσι Πελοποννησίοις. ὡς οὖν …