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Lacedaemon

[ las-i-dee-muhn ]

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. the son of Zeus and Taÿgete and the founder of the city of Sparta.


Lacedaemon

/ ˌlæsɪˈdiːmən /

noun

  1. another name for Sparta Laconia
“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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Lacedaemon consequently continued to be dominant in Greece till other states began to employ regular troops.

Lacedaemon and Crete give no assistance here; on the subject of love, as I may whisper in your ear, they are against us.

For we have reached the settlement of Lacedaemon; which, as you truly say, is in laws and in institutions the sister of Crete.

Self-respect constrains them: since the goddess whom the men of Lacedaemon worship is not "Shamelessness," but "Reverence."

As the two armies closed, the allies of Lacedaemon were as a rule fairly borne down by their opponents.

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