If he sees that tale-bearing and cowardice are looked upon with disgust by his comrades, he will be a very Spartan in his laconicism and courage; if his father and older brothers can bear pain without wincing, then he will not cry when he hurts himself.

The Spartans exiled Ctesiphon for bragging that he could speak the whole day on any subject selected; and a modern magazine is of little value, unless it has a Spartan at its head.

The women were just as Spartan as the Spartans; perhaps more so.

We shall have officers and men of a different class,the Spartan on the quarter-deck, the Helot in the forecastle.

He does not conceal either from himself or me how entire the sacrifice must be of private happiness to public duty, of which this parting was the first sample; and he writes of the desolation of domestic prospects in so sad a way that I am obliged to write like a Spartan to him.

The Spartan under Lysander, who had been restored to command, annihilate the Athenian navy at Aegospotami.

" Conqueror will he be in life's battle if he follow in the footsteps of the Spartan of old or of Wordsworth's "Happy Warrior": "Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshedmiserable train!