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But them, already, the life-giving earth possessed, there in Lacedaemon, in the dear fatherland.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
Isocrates informs us, that, before Alcibiades came to Lacedaemon, the Spartans, though they had a navy, expended little on it; but afterwards they increased it almost daily.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William
Much glory has been given to Lacedaemon on the score of her martial merits.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
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
Then he named for her husband Menelaus, King of Lacedaemon.
From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew
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