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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
He himself used to say in jest that he had not acted thus out of wanton passion, but in order that his race might one day rule in Lacedaemon.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
If I live till that hour no man shall harm you, but safely and in honour you shall come to your palace in Lacedaemon of the rifted hills.
From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew
Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon, instigated by the Aetolians, makes war on the Achaeans; is put to death by a party of the Aetolians.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
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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