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Eusebius: Chronica
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The kings of the Corinthians - from the books of Diodorus 
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After thoroughly investigating that, it remains to tell how Corinth and Sicyon were settled by the Dorians.  Almost all the nations in the Peloponnese, except the Arcadians, were uprooted by the return of the Heracleidae.  In their division of the land, the Heracleidae picked out Corinth and the surrounding area; they sent for Aletes, and awarded the territory to him.  Aletes became a distinguished king and increased the power of Corinth; he reigned for 38 years. 
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After the death of Aletes, his descendants ruled the land, the eldest son succeeding in every case, until the tyrant Cypselus, who [came to power] 447 years after the return of the Heracleidae. 
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The first of them to become king was Ixion, for 38 years. 
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(221) Then Agelas was king for 37 years. 
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Then Prymnis, for 35 years. 
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Then Bacchis, also for 35 years.  Bacchis was the most distinguished of the kings up to his time; so that the kings after him called themselves Bacchidae instead of Heracleidae. 
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Then Agelas, for 30 years. 
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Eudemus, for 25 years. 
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Aristomedes, for 35 years. 
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When Aristomedes died, his son Telestes was still a child; and so the direct succession was interrupted by his uncle and guardian Agemon, for 16 years. 
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Then Alexander was king, for 25 years. 
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Telestes, who earlier had been deprived of his father's kingdom, killed Alexander, and ruled for 12 years. 
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Automenes ruled for one year, after Telestes was killed by his relatives. 
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The Bacchidae, descendants of Heracles who were more than 200 in number, seized power and jointly governed the city; each year they chose one of their number to be president, in place of the king.  They governed the city for 90 years, until they were suppressed by the tyrant Cypselus. 
 
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