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Peloponnesian

/ ˌpɛləpəˈniːʃən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Peloponnese or its inhabitants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The war which wasted the Athenians for 27 years, commonly called the Peloponnesian war, began May 7th.

The present city was built during the Peloponnesian war, by the same architect,138 it is said, who built the Piræus.

Athens and Sparta were already in that mood toward each other which rendered the disaster of the Peloponnesian war inevitable.

At length, in 431, the long foreseen and inevitable Peloponnesian war broke out between Athens and Sparta.

Socrates, whom the oracle of Delphos praised as the wisest man of his age, lived in the time of the Peloponnesian war.

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