Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pheidon" in English language version.
But at Argos they made the aspis larger and tougher
Almost every reference to Pheidon speaks of him as a strong king with expansionist aims
but Pheidon the Argive, who was the tenth in descent from Temenus
whereby he not only recovered the whole inheritance of Temenus, which had been broken up into several parts
and they sent the thousand, putting Dexander in command of them.
and he confided this matter to some of his friends, among whom was Habron. Now he was a friend of Dexander and told him of the plot, so before the onslaught was made the thousand young men escaped safely to Corinth
but Pheidon tried to discover the betrayer of his plot and searched for him with, great care. So Hatron was frightened and fled to Corinth with his wife and his servants, settling in Melissus, a village in Corinthian territory.
For it was in his time that the measures were made larger than those of Pheidon, and that the mina, which previously had a weight of seventy drachmae, was increased to the full hundred.
But at Argos they made the aspis larger and tougher
