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  • adjective Alternative spelling of Lacedaemonian.
  • noun Alternative spelling of Lacedaemonian.

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Examples

  • Aerias, we should judge to have been a Lacedemonian and founder of

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Lacedemonian force from moving, and meanwhile they endeavoured to persuade him that it was not right for him to do so.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Lacedemonian would be able to make defence even for us both; but now, since being repulsed from the demand for the whole thou art requesting to be commander of the naval force, we tell that thus it is: — not even if the Lacedemonian shall permit thee to be commander of it, will we permit thee; for this at least is our own, if the Lacedemonians do not themselves desire to have it.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Aristagoras, when he told Cleomenes the Lacedemonian that the journey up from the sea to the residence of the king was one of three months, spoke correctly: but if any one demands a more exact statement yet than this, I will give him that also: for we ought to reckon in addition to this the length of the road from Ephesos to

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • While they had these thoughts and had been set at enmity with the Persians, at this very time Aristagoras the Milesian, ordered away from Sparta by Cleomenes the Lacedemonian, arrived at

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Lacedemonian left as memorials of himself; and after him the bravest they say of the Lacedemonians were two brothers Alpheos and

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Lacedemonian to help him, who had been a guest-friend to himself since the siege of the sons of Peisistratos; moreover Cleomenes was accused of being intimate with the wife of Isagoras.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Then after the remainder of Hellas has been reduced to subjection, from that moment the Lacedemonian power will be left alone and therefore feeble.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Lacedemonian by himself, yet he did this to thirty thousand

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Lacedemonian {medimnos} being equal to rather more than two bushels.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

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