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Peloponnesian War   /pˌɛləpənˈiʒən wɔr/   Listen
Peloponnesian War

noun
1.
A war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC.





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... out-of-the-way places, and there lay close, but, in the night, issued out into the highways, and killed all the Helots they could light upon; sometimes they set upon them by day, as they were at work in the fields, and murdered them. As, also, Thucydides, in his history of the Peloponnesian war, tells us, that a good number of them, after being singled out for their bravery by the Spartans, garlanded, as enfranchised persons, and led about to all the temples in token of honors, shortly after disappeared all of a sudden, being about ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
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Words linked to "Peloponnesian War" :   war, Aegospotamos, warfare, Aegospotami


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