Alcman
Britishnoun
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"As ye will, as ye will," said Alcman, relapsing into his usual coldness.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
It happened, fortunately, that Gylippus was related to my own foster-brother, Alcman, brother to my nurse; and Alcman is celebrated in Sparta, not only for courage in war, but for arts in peace.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
And in a subsequent passage he says— Alcman prepared an ἄïκλον.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Is Alcman the helot who revealed, to the Ephors, the gigantic plots of his master just when those plots were on the eve of execution?
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The fabulous narration of Polyænus appears to me to be historically refuted by Alcman, as also by that remarked in b.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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