There she boils roots cut up in the Hæmonian valleys, and seeds and flowers and acrid juices.
When the Pelasgians saw them preparing to hurl their spears with sharp points at the head of the Hæmonian youth, they lowered their countenances and their courage, {quailing} with fear.
The following are their peculiarities: to have a kind of Lacedæmonian common meal, where they eat in public.
This unbroken chain consists of the words from our own mouths.
Thanks to our introduction we can revive the more spirited account, and, while pointing out its value to the reader, can warn him of its errors.
This, and other sayings of the same kind, they relate that Dieneces the Lacedæmonian left as memorials.
Two thousand Lacedæmonian spearmen, starting immediately after the full moon, had marched the hundred and fifty miles between Athens and Sparta in the wonderfully short time of three days.
No enchanted herbs of a rival [215] have done you this injury; no treacherous hag has been washing you with Itæmonian water.
And the wretched Hector, dragged by the Hæmonian steeds?
Expedition of Agesilaus against Akarnania—successful, after some delay—the Akarnanians submit, and enrol themselves in the Lacedæmonian confederacy.
Antalkidas in command of the Lacedæmonian and Syracusan fleets in the Hellespont, with Persian aid.
Kleander was the Lacedæmonian harmost or governor of Byzantium.
His subsequent return to Asia, to take command of Cyreians as a part of the Lacedæmonian army.
But the idea of acting with the army in Asia against Pharnabazus, under Lacedæmonian sanction, was probably very acceptable to him.
Not having been apprized of the recent revolt, these vessels entered the harbor of Rhodes as if it were still a Lacedæmonian island; and their cargoes were thus appropriated by Konon and the Rhodians.
But Gorgôpas and his squadron were now for the time withdrawn, to escort Antalkidas, the new Lacedæmonian admiral sent to Asia chiefly for the purpose of again negotiating with Tiribazus.
The Hæmonian nobles were there; I, too, was there, and the festive palace resounded with the confused rout.
Attica the Lacedæmonian garrisons, and restored liberty to the Athenians.
It is related of a king of Pontus, that he purchased a Lacedæmonian cook, for the sake of this broth.
It is true, the latest of the Lacedæmonian kings were of the lineage of the Heraclidæ; but Xenophon there seems to speak of the first and more immediate descendants of Hercules.
Hence people of other countries purchased Lacedæmonian nurses for their children; and Alcibiades the Athenian is said to have been nursed by Amicla, a Spartan.
For it was reckoned worthy of a Lacedæmonian to bear a jest: but if any one's patience failed, he had only to desire them to be quiet, and they left off immediately.
When the rest of the troops came up, Cheirisophus the Lacedæmonian rose first, and spoke as follows: 2.
And they were urged to labour by the Lacedæmonian officers, who commanded severally the contingents of the allied cities.
The Lacedæmonian fleet was formed in a single line.
After the incorporation of the remainder of the ten thousand with the Lacedæmonian army, where did Xenophon go?
But a Lacedæmonian nurse was specially valued, and often bought at a great price among prisoners, as they were famed for bringing up the child without swaddling-clothes, and making him hardy and courageous.
In the fourth year of the reign of king Archidamus, the son of Zeuxidamus, at Sparta, the Lacedæmonian territory was visited by the greatest earthquake ever known there.
Wherefore Æteokles the Lacedæmonian was thought to have spoken well, when he said that "Greece could not have borne two Lysanders.
When Manius the Roman consul had conquered Antiochus, he begged the Achæans to permit the Lacedæmonian exiles to return.
The real decree of the Ephors ran as follows:--"This is the decision of the Lacedæmonian government.
The straits here are only fifteen furlongs wide, a distance which was soon passed by the zeal of the Lacedæmonian rowers.
He put off the envoys with these stories, and made them accompany his army, but on reaching the Lacedæmonian territory he at once began to plunder and lay it waste.
Now the Island of Callistè, founded by Theras the Lacedæmonian more than ten centuries before the Christian era.
If any one has recourse to the Hæmonian arts, and gives that which he has torn from the forehead of the young horse, [911] he is mistaken.
The damsel of Scyros being united to the Hæmonian hero, is a well-known story indeed, but not unworthy to be related.
In the chariot and in the flowing reins was Automedon skilled: in the Hæmonian ship of Jason Tiphys was the pilot.
But they were supported in their tyranny by a garrison of fifteen hundred Spartans and allies in the Cadmeia, and Lacedæmonian posts in the other cities around.
And now into the harbor of the Piræus sailed the triumphant Lacedæmonian fleet, just twenty-seven years after the war had begun.
It needed no great host to keep the few Platæans within their walls until they should consume all their food and yield to famine, a slower but more irresistible foe than all the Lacedæmonian power.
Athenians sent nearly the whole of their naval force to oppose the Lacedæmonian fleet in the eastern waters of the Ægean sea, along the coast of Asia Minor.
In number of ships the Athenian and Lacedæmonian fleets were nearly equal: in all else they were ill-matched antagonists.
With this unsatisfactory answer the Lacedæmonian envoys were compelled to return home.
It does not appear that the generals on the Argeian side made any attempt to charge while the Lacedæmonian battle-array was yet incomplete.
But it required all the habitual discipline of Lacedæmonian soldiers to make them obey this order of the Spartan king, alike unexpected and unwelcome.
Very little can be made out respecting the structure of the Lacedæmonian army.
The Epidaurians were reinforced about the end of September by a detachment of three hundred Lacedæmonian hoplites under Agesippidas, sent by sea without the knowledge of the Athenians.
Ten of these triremes, now ready in the Lacedæmonian ports—probably at Gythium—were directed immediately to sail to Chios, under the admiral Melanchridas.
And Dioscorides, in the second book of his Polity, and Aristocles, in the first book of the treatise which he also wrote concerning the Lacedæmonian Polity, make the same statement.
He put on a purple tunic with a white centre, and over that he wore a very superb and costly cloak, and he put on white Lacedæmonian sandals, and assumed also a crown of golden daphne leaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
