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Eurypon.
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Eunomus.
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Polydectes by his first wife. Lycurgus by Dionassa his second.

Sous certainly was the most renowned of all his ancestors, under
whose conduct the Spartans made slaves of the Helots, and added to
their dominions, by conquest, a good part of Arcadia. There goes a
story of this king Sous, that, being besieged by the Clitorians in
a dry and stony place so that he could come at no water, he was at
last constrained to agree with them upon these terms, that he
would restore to them all his conquests, provided that himself and
all his men should drink of the nearest spring. After the usual
oaths and ratifications, he called his soldiers together, and
offered to him that would forbear drinking, his kingdom for a
reward; and when not a man of them was able to forbear, in short,
when they had all drunk their fill, at last comes king Sous
himself to the spring, and, having sprinkled his face only,
without swallowing one drop, marches off in the face of his
enemies, refusing to yield up his conquests, because himself and
all his men had not, according to the articles, drunk of their
water.

Although he was justly had in admiration on this account, yet his
family was not surnamed from him, but from his son Eurypon (of
whom they were called Eurypontids); the reason of which was that
Eurypon relaxed the rigor of the monarchy, seeking favor and