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Lysander   /lˌaɪsˈændər/   Listen
Lysander

noun
1.
Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC).





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... caused a considerable revolution in Lysander Grove, which during several weeks rang with Parisian argot and Parisian fun. Many of these Frenchmen were a queer lot. They seemed the very reincarnation of Murger's Bohemians, and evidently took all the discomforts and privations of their ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith
... state to Achilles, as does that of Elpenor to Odysseus, when they meet in the lower world. It is not surprising that the ancients attached the highest importance to the duty of burying the dead, and that Pausanias blames Lysander for not burying the bodies of Philocles and the four thousand slain at AEgospotami, seeing that the Athenians even buried the Persian dead ...
— Greek and Roman Ghost Stories • Lacy Collison-Morley
... part of Theseus, Field played Hippolyta, Burbage played Puck, Heminge represented Lysander, and Condell Demetrius, while Phillips and Cooke played respectively Hermia and Helen, Jo Taylor played Oberon and Robert Benfield acted Titania, the ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce


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