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And even while she spoke, one of my own ships, came sailing into the harbor, bringing trusted heralds whom the elders of Lacedaemon had sent to me.
From Hero Tales by Baldwin, James
So it seems to have been well said that in Lacedaemon, the free man was more free, and the slave more a slave than anywhere else.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
Footnote 125: The Zaconic dialect of Lacedaemon is the sole exception.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
The Heraclidae ruled in Lacedaemon till 221 B.C., but disappeared much earlier in the other countries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Only in the departments of Arcadia, Eurytania, Corinth, Cephalonia, Lacedaemon, Laconia, Phocis, Argolis and in the Cyclades, is the female population in excess of the male.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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