Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Caprysema (First Messenian War).

Fought B.C. 743, between the Spartans and Corinthians, and the Messenians with their allies from other Peloponnesian states under Cristomenes. The Spartans were routed, and, but for the eloquence of Tyrtacus, would have abandoned the struggle.