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When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. (source)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were famous for military prowess
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—although we were not as civilized as Athens and they were not as brave as Sparta. (source)Sparta = ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
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An hour later, the two of them stood on a hill overlooking the ruins of Ancient Sparta.† (source)
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They think suffering is good for you ever since they saw that movie 300 Spartans.† (source)
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Friday night I split wood and fell asleep reading about the Spartans.† (source)
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There he found the chef at his counter slicing a bulb of fennel, as four stalks of celery lying in an orderly row waited like Spartans to meet their fate.† (source)
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I—I do what I can, but you see I've got Fanny to support, and then, too, I've got my mother and two widowed sisters down in Sparta to look after.† (source)
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It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.† (source)
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Ancient Sparta came to mind, Communist Russia and her satellites.† (source)
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This is Athens, the other we've christened Sparta.† (source)
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In the town where I live, the college teams are known as the Spartans.† (source)
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Sparta, another republic, was little more than an army camp.† (source)
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His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, the story of the immortal stand of the Spartans at Thermopylae.† (source)
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And Lysistrata, a play by Aristophanes in which the women of Athens and Sparta rebel—until the men of both nation-states agree to make peace, these women of warring cities unite in a boycott of all marital relations.† (source)
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Find Einhorn in a serious mood when his fatty, beaky, noble Bourbon face was thoughtful, and he'd give you the lowdown on the mechanical age, and on strength and frailty, and piece it out with little digressions on the history of cripples—the dumbness of the Spartans, the fact that Oedipus was lame, that gods were often maimed, that Moses had faltering speech and Dmitri the Sorcerer a withered arm, Caesar and Mahomet epilepsy, Lord Nelson a pinned sleeve—but especially on the machine age and the kind of advantage that had to be taken of it; with me like a man-at-arms receiving a lecture from the learned signor who felt like passing out discourse.† (source)
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The whole conception strikes me rather as being another example of the kind of work I saw a few weeks ago in the small museum in Sparta, on the morning before the news of this year's Nobel Prize in literature was announced.† (source)
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