Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Areus
AREUS（Ἀρεύς), a Spartan exile, who was restored to his country with Alcibiades, another exile [see p. 100, a.], about b. c. 184, by the Achaeans, but afterwards went as ambassador to Rome to accuse the Achaeans. (Polyb. xxiii. 11, 12, xxiv. 4; Liv. xxxix. 35; Paus. vii. 9. § 2.)