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Lacedaemonian
Lacedaemonian Lac`e*d[ae]*mo"ni*an, a. [L. Lacedamonius, Gr. Lakedaimo`nios, fr. Lakedai`mwn Laced[ae]mon.] Of or pertaining to Laced[ae]mon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n. A Spartan. [Written also Lacedemonian.]

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- Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement...
- Lacedaemon (/læsɪˈdiːmən/; Ancient Gr****: Λακεδαίμων Lakedaímōn) or Lacaedemon was the eponymous king of Lacedaemon (i.e. Sparta) in classical Gr**** mythology...
- mentions the response of the commander of the Ten Thousand, "But men of Lacedaemon, we are the same men now as we were last year; but the commander now is...
- Peloponnesian League, the alliance network dominated by Sparta (then known as Lacedaemon). The Long Walls of Athens rendered this strategy ineffective, while the...
- Pausanias also describes Tiasa as being Eurotas's daughter. By her husband, Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius...
- later on became the queen of Argos. Eurydice was the daughter of King Lacedaemon and Queen Sparta, the legendary founders of Sparta and thus sister to...
- The Diocese of Lacedaemon o Lacedaemonia (Gr****: Μητρόπολις Λακεδαίμονος/Λακεδαιμονίας) was a Christian ecclesiastical province in Laconia, Greece. Extant...
- Lacedaemon Province was one of the provinces of Laconia Prefecture, Greece. Its territory corresponded with that of the current muni****lity Sparta and...
- In Gr**** mythology, Hyacinthus (Ancient Gr****: Ὑάκινθος) was a Lacedaemonian who is said to have moved to Athens. In compliance with an oracle, to have...
- Xanthippus (Ancient Gr****: Ξάνθιππος) of Lacedaemon, or of Carthage, was a Spartan mercenary general emplo**** by Carthage during the First Punic War. He...