 As a reward the Achaeans elected him to the post of "strategos", that is (commanding general) of the League, for three terms in 234/33, 232/31 and 230/29 BC.In 227 BC he lost the elections against Aratus of Sicyon, but was chosen as "hipparch", in this position he fell at the gates of his city during a cavalry charge against the Spartan king Cleomenes III.Probably a son of Eudamus from Caphyae, Lydiadas was raised as a citizen of Megalopolis.