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Dorieus
Dorieus was a Spartan prince, a son of King Anaxandridas II and half-brother of Cleomenes I. Passed over for the throne, he left Sparta around 515 BCE to found a colony on the Cinyps in Libya, but was expelled by the Macae and Carthaginians. He then sailed to western Sicily, where he was killed fighting the Carthaginians and Segestans; Leonidas I was his younger brother.
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