Peloponnesian

/ ˌpɛləpəˈniːʃən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Peloponnese or its inhabitants

Example Sentences

The war which wasted the Athenians for 27 years, commonly called the Peloponnesian war, began May 7th.

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The present city was built during the Peloponnesian war, by the same architect,138 it is said, who built the Piræus.

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Athens and Sparta were already in that mood toward each other which rendered the disaster of the Peloponnesian war inevitable.

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At length, in 431, the long foreseen and inevitable Peloponnesian war broke out between Athens and Sparta.

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Socrates, whom the oracle of Delphos praised as the wisest man of his age, lived in the time of the Peloponnesian war.

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