Definition of Spartans

1. Proper noun. (plural of Spartan) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spartans

1. spartan [n] - See also: spartan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spartans

sparsest
sparsification
sparsified
sparsifier
sparsifiers
sparsify
sparsifying
sparsing
sparsities
sparsity
sparsomycin
sparstone
spart
spartanly
spartanness
spartans (current term)
sparteine
sparteines
sparth
sparthe
sparthes
sparths
sparticle
sparticles
spartina
spartinas
sparts
sparve
spary
spas

Literary usage of Spartans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"The spar- The servitude of the Helots was the foundation on Uns- which the existence of the spartans, as a separate people, rested. ..."

2. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"The Spartan allies at first were entirely routed; but the spartans themselves ... The spartans, thus freed from the-terrors of a powerful foreign enemy, ..."

3. The Athenian Empire by George William Cox (1888)
"It was for wrongdoers, lie said, to consider beforehand the effect of the crimes which they intended to commit ; it was for the spartans to decree without ..."

4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"Plutarch observes, that in later times the spartans became more jealous, ... In this respect the spartans were all equal; contrasted with the serfs who ..."

5. Lectures on Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1852)
"I believe, therefore, that Diodorus too eagerly caught up an account which throws the blame upon the spartans: it was not invented by himself, but either by ..."

6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"This the spartans felt ; and they had long determined that no scruples of ... If there had been nothing but inhumanity in the proceeding of the spartans, ..."

7. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1885)
"THE spartans COMB THEIR LONG HAIR AT TH " HOT GATES." A SINGULARLY beautiful illustration of the spir of that distant age I may now give you in the stor of ..."

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