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Arētus

（Ἄρητος). A famous warrior, whose only weapon was an iron club, and who was treacherously slain by Lycurgus, king of Arcadia. See Pausan. viii. 11.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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