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The dead become this massive roadblock standing between the Persians and the road to Sparta. (source)Sparta = ancient Greek city 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)
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"I do not want to go to Sparta," he said.† (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)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were famous for military prowess
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The title was lurid red: KING OF SPARTA.† (source)SPARTA = ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
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They think suffering is good for you ever since they saw that movie 300 Spartans.† (source)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were famous for military prowess
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Aristophanes labels a gang of pro-Sparta aristocratic youths as "Socratified."† (source)Sparta = ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
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Then outsiders (Creon in the play, the Spartans in reality) wouldn't be trying to overrun us.† (source)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were famous for military prowess
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Ancient Sparta came to mind, Communist Russia and her satellites.† (source)Ancient Sparta = ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
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Drawing on history and literature, some fifty books altogether, he examined what he called the modern democratic republics (the little Italian commonwealth of San Marino, Biscay in the Basque region of Spain, the Swiss cantons), modern aristocratic republics (Venice, the Netherlands), and the modern monarchical and regal republics (England, Poland); as well as the ancient democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical republics including Carthage, Athens, Sparta, and Rome.† (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)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were 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)Ancient Sparta = ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
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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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Friday night I split wood and fell asleep reading about the Spartans.† (source)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were famous for military prowess
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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)Sparta = ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
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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)Spartans = people of an ancient Greek city who were famous for military prowess
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