Victory of the Spartans at Mantinea.

The Spartans of the forest were around himfir, pine, spruce, birch, and trembling little aspens up there among the stoutest.

Pelopidas and his associates drive the Spartans from Thebes.

We have had, in modern times, some instances of a hectoring soldiery arrogantly prancing amongst populations whose official defenders it had defeated in battle; but nonesuch could vie with the Spartans in the sublimity of their military self-esteem.

I know the charms of your country, said Brasidas to a satrap who was comparing the life of the Spartans with that of the Persepolites; but you can not know the pleasures of mine.

Cleombrotus leads the Spartans into Boeotia; the Spartan fleet, under Pollis, is overwhelmed off Maxos, by Chabrias. 371.

Athenians could be passably just, or at least not disastrously unjust, to Athenians; Spartans to Spartans; but Sparta must needs oppress the other cities of Laconia, while Athens was at best a fickle ally; and when Grecian liberty could be strong only in Grecian union, the common sentiment was bankrupted by too great a draft upon its resources.

Pray, is it true that the young Spartans among you are born with six fingers, which spoils their scanning?It must look very odd; but use reconciles.