In the summer of the third year, the Lacedæmonians called on the Platæans to desert the Athenian alliance.
But he held them of little account, and threatened them, and the Lacedæmonians also, who sent him messengers warning him to let the Ionians alone.
Some supplies, however, were got into Sphacteria, owing to the high rewards offered by the Lacedæmonians for successful blockade-running.
Such was the deed which Cyrus and the Lacedæmonians did not scruple to enjoin, nor the uncle and brother of a Persian satrap to execute, and by which this celebrated Athenian perished, before he had attained the age of fifty.
His arrival was received with undisguised dissatisfaction by the leading Lacedæmonians in the armament, by the chiefs in the Asiatic cities, and by Cyrus.
He despatched a second letter to Astyochus, complaining of the violation of confidence in regard to the former, but at the same time intimating that he was now willing to betray to the Lacedæmonians the camp and armament at Samos.
As soon as these terms were proclaimed, accepted, and sworn to by all parties, Pausanias with all the Lacedæmonians evacuated Attica.
This is a culture which we never find the Lacedæmonians reach.
While the Lacedæmonians had no arts or sciences, Athens had to thank the character of its constitution, and of its whole spirit, for the fact that it was the seat of the sciences and fine arts.
The Lacedæmonians affirm, that their vessel was intercepted near Samos, on its way to Sardis, by the Samians, who had fitted out some ships of war for this particular purpose.
The Lacedæmonians having heard of the oracular declaration to Crœsus, were rejoiced at his distinction in their favour, and instantly acceded to the proposed terms of confederacy.
Strongly impressed by this wonderful calamity, the Lacedæmonians made no further efforts.
Only one or two stayed by the tent, marvelling much to observe that Leonidas gave no orders to his Lacedæmonians to join in the flight.
Aristeides is soon going to Sparta to press home his demands that the Lacedæmonians march in full force against Mardonius.
To this terrible menace, the Lacedæmonians answered only by the word, "If.
The Lacedæmonians were then at the head of Greece: comp.
What celebrated battle was fought soon after in Bœotia between the Lacedæmonians and the Thebans?
What was the most noted of the combats of the Thebans with the Lacedæmonians in Bœotia at this time, which served as a sort of prelude to that of Leuktra?
Herodotus states that the Egyptians resembled the Lacedæmonians in the reverence the young men paid to their elders.
Winterbottom doubts whether the ancient Lacedæmonians paid greater regard to old age than do the natives of Sierra Leone.
In fact, that which Athens was now induced to grant was precisely the original proposition transmitted to her by the Lacedæmonians four years before, when the hoplites were first inclosed in Sphakteria, but before the actual capture.
The Lacedæmonians shall restore all the hostages whom they now have in keeping, from whatever place they may have been taken.
Alkibiadês at Sparta—his recommendations determine the Lacedæmonians to send aid to Chios.
Alkibiadês contended strenuously that the recent truce with the Lacedæmonians was null and void; since it had been contracted without the privity of all the allies, distinctly at variance with the terms of the alliance.
The Lacedæmonians are surprised: their sudden and ready formation into battle order.
Even in the preceding winter, the Lacedæmonians had listened favorably to the recommendation of Alkibiadês[411] that they should establish a fortified post at Dekeleia in Attica.
The Lacedæmonians and their allies shall not attack or injure any territory or any city which belongs to Darius, or has belonged to his father or ancestors; nor shall they raise any tribute from any of the said cities.
And again, about the end of September, the Lacedæmonians gave the word for a second expedition against Argos.
Should occasion arise for common military operations on any point, the Lacedæmonians and Argeians shall take counsel together, determining in the most equitable manner they can for the interest of their allies.
The Lacedæmonians alone, those cynics of Greece, threw a saddening shade over the delicious picture of present happiness undisturbed by any thought of to-morrow.
The Lacedæmonians admitted as many as fifteen guests, but they elected a king of the banquet, and that ephemeral autocrat decided without appeal all questions which might have compromised the tranquillity of the banquet.
XXII-4] How often have people extolled the Lacedæmonians and their legislator, Lycurgus.
Polemo says, that the Lacedæmonians call lupins =lysilaides=.
Subsequently the Lacedæmonians relaxed the rigour of this way of living, and became more luxurious.
And Apellas relates that the Lacedæmonians call the snail =semelos=.
And Sosibius the Lacedæmonian, after stating that the fig-tree was the discovery of Bacchus, says that on this account the Lacedæmonians worship Bacchus Sukites.
And Seleucus in his Dictionary says, that the Lacedæmonians call soft nuts =mykêroi=.
Do not risk its loss by attacking the Lacedæmonians driven to despair in their camp.
A thousand and more Lacedæmonians besides were left dead upon the field.
For this reason they came up not in a regular body, but straggling, and after the Lacedæmonians wore already engaged.
On the occasion of the revolt of Corinth, when he brought up the Lacedæmonians to assault their walls, he observed that they seemed unwilling to attack.
At nightfall the Lacedæmonians at first proposed to send away the women to Crete, but they refused to leave the city.
At Tegyra, then, Pelopidas and the Thebans retiring from Orchomenus met the Lacedæmonians marching back from Lokris, in the opposite direction.
The Lacedæmonians were the first to rout the Persians.
The enemy's cavalry was now close at hand, their arrows reached the Lacedæmonians and killed several of them.
Much of Kimon's political influence was due to the fact that the Lacedæmonians were bitterly hostile to Themistokles, and wished to make him, young as he was, into a powerful leader of the opposite party at Athens.
He also wrote to his friends in Asia, bidding them ask the Lacedæmonians to send them Agesilaus to act as their commander in chief in the war with the Persians.
The black broth of the Lacedæmonians was "pork, cooked in blood and seasoned with salt and vinegar.
He insisted upon the most highly deserved reward, such as the Romans bestowed upon their Curtius, the Lacedæmonians upon their Pompilius, the Athenians upon Seneca, with whom he modestly compared himself.
The Lacedæmonians he honored by giving them Cythera and attending their Public Mess, because Livia, when she fled from Italy with her husband and son, passed some time there.
He gave the name Laconian to the gymnasium because the Lacedæmonians had, in those days, a greater reputation than anybody else for stripping naked and exercising smeared with oil.
Neither do all the Athenians dwell at Colyttus, nor all the Corinthians at Craneum, nor all the Lacedæmonians at Pitane.
To begin then, whether my process was wrong or right I know not, but I began my cure of anger by noticing its effects in others, as the Lacedæmonians study the nature of drunkenness in the Helots.
And that also of Epaminondas to the Lacedæmonians who were inveighing against the Thebans, "Anyhow we have made you talk at greater length than usual.
All praise also ought we to bestow on the Lacedæmonians for their loftiness of soul in fining their king Archidamus for venturing to marry a small woman, for they charged him with intending to furnish them not with kings but kinglets.
A similar story about the Samians and Lacedæmonians is told by Aristotle, "Oeconom.
And do we not see what the Lacedæmonians provide in their Phiditia?
Could the Lacedæmonians without this, when Philip threatened to prevent all their attempts, have asked him, if he could prevent their killing themselves?
That if there happen any insurrection among the Helots, the Athenians march to the succour of the Lacedæmonians with their whole strength, to the full extent of their power.
That the Lacedæmonians might strike up a bargain with the Athenians to enslave other states.
Though the Lacedæmonians and Thespians behaved in this manner, yet Dieneces, a Spartan, is said to have been the bravest man.
At this time the Lacedæmonians happened to be posted outside; and some of the men he saw performing gymnastic exercises, and others combing their hair.
His propositions were favorably entertained--the more so, as he had before gratuitously furnished some gold to the Lacedæmonians for a statue to Apollo.
For it is very commonly seen, that men reverence those whom they fear; and therefore the Lacedæmonians placed the temple of Fear by the Sussitium of the Ephori, having raised their power to almost absolute monarchy.
The Lacedæmonians have not only temples dedicated to Fear, but also to Death, Laughter, and the like passions.
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