Dramatis Personæ.
MEN.
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Aristomenes, Prince of the Messenians and Arcadians.
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Aristor, Son to Aristomenes.
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Alcander, a Principal Officer under Aristomenes.
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Demagetus, Or the Royal Shepherd, Son to the Prince of Rhodes, under the Disguise of a Shepherd call'd Climander.
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Arcasius, An old Lord, under the Habit of a Shepherd, Counsellor to Demagetus.
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Anaxander, One of the Kings of Lacedemon (for they had always Two) and Leader of their Forces against Aristomenes.
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Clarinthus, Chief Counsellor to Anaxander, a Lord of Sparta.
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Clinias, A Shepherd keeping his Flock on the Plains of Messenia, close to the Walls of Phærea, with other Shepherds.
WOMEN.
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Herminia, Daughter to Aristomenes.
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Barina, Her Woman and Confident.
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Amalintha, Daughter to Anaxander.
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Phila, Her Woman and Confident.
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Theata, Shepherdess on the Plains of Messenia.
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Lamia, Shepherdess on the Plains of Messenia.
- Soldiers, Officers, Guards, and Attendants, several Lords of the Spartan Council.
The general SCENES are Aristomenes's Camp near the Walls
of Phærea; sometimes the Town of Phærea, and sometimes
the Plains among the Shepherds.
