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Definition of Spartans
1. spartan [n] - See also: spartan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spartans
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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