He was stoned to death by his own people for chasing a virgin-priestess of Artemis Hymnia into the temple and raping her beside a statue of the goddess.
[1] This story has some similarities to the one about Aristoclides that was first described by Church Father Saint Jerome in his work Against Jovinianus.
He was bribed by the Lacedaemonians and was guilty of treachery at the Battle of the Great Foss; and when this was discovered some years afterwards, he was, like his grandfather, stoned to death by the Arcadians.
His family was either merely deprived of their sovereignty (according to the writer Pausanias) or completely destroyed (according to Polybius).
Later critics believed the latter statement could not be correct, as we know that his son Aristodamus ruled over Orchomenus and a great part of Arcadia.