Sparta
['spa:tə]
Definition
(noun.) an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess; the dominant city of the Peloponnesus prior to the 4th century BC.
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Examples
- But the example of Sparta, and perhaps in some degree the tendency to defy public opinion, seems to have misled him. Plato. The Republic.
- Hymns to the Gods, which are the only kind of music admitted into the ideal State, were the only kind which was permitted at Sparta. Plato. The Republic.
- Better the republics of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes, than such playing at monarchy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What Plato had heard or seen of Sparta was applied by him in a mistaken way to his ideal commonwealth. Plato. The Republic.
- Then arose Thebes, a city not fifty miles from Athens, to overshadow Sparta. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 431 B.C. came the war with Sparta. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is there any city which professes to have received laws from you, as Sicily and Italy have from Charondas, Sparta from Lycurgus, Athens from Solon? Plato. The Republic.
- At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thomas has ordered a division of cavalry to the vicinity of Sparta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Quite like Sparta! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Least of all did he observe that Sparta did not really produce the finest specimens of the Greek race. Plato. The Republic.
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