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Ignorant of that event, Philopoemen advanced to the Barbosthenes, a mountain ten miles from Lacedaemon.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
So these men of Lacedaemon, coming to an island where the rule of Genoa was a scourge to all except themselves, in gratitude, or for their oath's sake, took sides with the oppressor.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
But an insult to Lacedaemon is an insult to all Greece, and every loyal Greek will hasten to avenge it.
From Hero Tales by Baldwin, James
Thus they told those tales of the Spartan mothers, and the Spartan boy the fox nibbled; thus their philosophers, painting an Utopia, took always most of its features from Lacedaemon.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
Is it not thus the Phrygian herdsman wound his way to Lacedaemon, and carried Leda's Helen to the Trojan towns?
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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