What is "lacedemonian"

Usage examples of "lacedemonian".

The Lacedemonian nation might have approved of it, but most modern dames would have gone into hysterics at the sight.

Temer Lacedemonian was the Advocate Warden in charge of space-traffic control.

It was Temer Lacedemonian who controlled the safety of all ships in flight throughout the Solar System, and most of the Outer, and his position made him on the verge of becoming a Peer.

This sort of Lacedemonian twaddle went on during the whole time of my visit, and my cousin evidently was proud of being surrounded by such Spartans.

In history we have the old story of the Lacedemonian woman who for some time had believed her son was dead, and who from the sudden joy occasioned by seeing him alive, herself fell lifeless.

Cornelius Nepos says that while fighting against the Lacedemonians, Epaminondas was sensible of having received a mortal wound, and apprehending that the lance was stopping a wound in an important vessel, remarked that he would die when it was withdrawn.

According to this square, Thucydides delivers, the Athenians disposed their battle against the Lacedemonians, brickwise,48 and by the same word the Learned Guellius expoundeth the quadrate of Virgil, 49 after the form of a brick or tile.

Or was it because they were descended from slaves that all the Athenians and all the Lacedemonians and Corinthians could not converse with them as they pleased, but feared and paid court to them?

From this ignorance it was that the Athenians and Lacedemonians quarrelled with each other.

Such (as well as I can remember) was the case among the Lacedemonians, and amongst the ancient Persians till the time of Cyrus.