him.

About this time Menetheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus,
and great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded
to have affected popularity and ingratiated himself with the
multitude, stirred up and exasperated the most eminent men of the
city, who had long borne a secret grudge to Theseus, conceiving
that he had robbed them of their several little kingdoms and
lordships, and, having pent them all up in one city, was using
them as his subjects and slaves. He put also the meaner people
into commotion, telling them, that, deluded with a mere dream of
liberty, though indeed they were deprived both of that and their
proper homes and religious usages, instead of many good and
gracious kings of their own, they had given themselves up to be
lorded over by a newcomer and a stranger. Whilst he was thus
busied in infecting the minds of the citizens, the war that Castor
and Pollux brought against Athens came very opportunity to farther
the sedition he had been promoting, and some say that he by his
persuasions was wholly the cause of their invading the city. At
their first approach they committed no acts of hostility, but
peaceably demanded their sister Helen; but the Athenians returning
answer that they neither had her nor knew where she was disposed
of, they prepared to assault the city, when Academus, having, by
whatever means, found it out, disclosed to them that she was
secretly kept at Aphidnea. For which reason he was both highly
honored during his life by Castor and Pollux, and the
Lacedaemonians, when often in after times they made excursions
into Attica, and destroyed all the country round about, spared the
Academy for the sake of Academus.