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Nabis, leaving a strong garrison at Argos, returned to Lacedaemon; and, as he himself had pillaged the men, he sent his wife to Argos to pillage the women.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Titus Livius
In the Pass of Thermopylae stands a monument to Leonidas and his followers, bearing this inscription—"Go, stranger, and tell at Lacedaemon that we died here in obedience to our laws."
From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
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 William Stevenson
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 Aubrey Stewart
In Lacedaemon you would say, looking at his appearance, "'Tis not Achilles' son, 'tis he himself."
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
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