Cratylus
   Part
 1 Text |      Rush), for by this word the Lacedaemonians signify rapid motion, and


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 2 Text |       And when the Athenians and Lacedaemonians and Boeotians fell at Tanagra,
 3 Text |        war now and then with the Lacedaemonians and with the great king?~
 4 Text |        glory and ambition of the Lacedaemonians—in all these respects you
 5 Text |    estimate of the wealth of the Lacedaemonians, you will see that our possessions


Laches
   Part
 6 Intro|        of any value, because the Lacedaemonians, those great masters of
 7 Intro|          by asking, ‘What do the Lacedaemonians say?’ The one is the thoughtful
 8 Text |        been really valuable, the Lacedaemonians, whose whole life is passed
 9 Text |          of all the Hellenes the Lacedaemonians have the greatest interest
10 Text |      Laches, you must except the Lacedaemonians at Plataea, who, when they


Laws
   Book
11 1    |        my boyhood, how, when any Lacedaemonians praised or blamed the Athenians,
12 2    |    except among us and among the Lacedaemonians, there are no regulations
13 2    |  prevalent among the Cretans and Lacedaemonians than among the other Hellenes?~
14 2    |         prevail among us and the Lacedaemonians, and such as you were just
15 2    |   different from the Cretans and Lacedaemonians of this age, and I may say,
16 2    |     further than the Cretans and Lacedaemonians, and am disposed rather
17 3    |         the story is told by you Lacedaemonians as part of the history of
18 3    |       what has occurred with you Lacedaemonians, Megillus, may easily know
19 3    |         unless the Athenians and Lacedaemonians, acting in concert, had
20 3    |         by us. Justly may you, O Lacedaemonians, be praised, in that you
21 3    |        with the exception of the Lacedaemonians; and they, either because
22 6    |          of the Helots among the Lacedaemonians is of all Hellenic forms
23 7    |          if the Curetes, and the Lacedaemonians have those of the Dioscuri.


Menexenus
   Part
24 Intro|         to praise them among the Lacedaemonians would have been a much more
25 Text |        the Athenians, except the Lacedaemonians, and they arrived a day
26 Text |          of Plataea. And now the Lacedaemonians as well as the Athenians
27 Text |        war, our citizens met the Lacedaemonians at Tanagra, and fought for
28 Text |     which followed. For when the Lacedaemonians had gone on their way, leaving
29 Text |       was our feeling, while the Lacedaemonians were thinking that we who
30 Text |       ships, and fought with the Lacedaemonians on behalf of the Parians.
31 Text |     stand aloof, when he saw the Lacedaemonians growing weary of the war
32 Text |       Hellenes in Asia, whom the Lacedaemonians had previously handed over
33 Text |      Persian king, and drove the Lacedaemonians from the sea. I remind you


Protagoras
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34 Intro|  explanation is as follows:—~The Lacedaemonians are great philosophers (
35 Intro|     those masters of brevity the Lacedaemonians. The poets, the Laconizers,
36 Intro|          the speech in which the Lacedaemonians are described as the true
37 Intro|      philosophy advanced for the Lacedaemonians, which is a parody of the
38 Intro|        set in supposing that the Lacedaemonians are a great nation because
39 Text |   however, is a secret which the Lacedaemonians deny; and they pretend to
40 Text | practices which have enabled the Lacedaemonians to conquer the other Hellenes.
41 Text |     other Hellenes. Now when the Lacedaemonians want to unbend and hold
42 Text |      right in attributing to the Lacedaemonians this excellence in philosophy
43 Text |  disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and any one may perceive


The Republic
   Book
44 5    |        the Cretans, and then the Lacedaemonians, introduced the custom,


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
45 Text |         are right.~SOCRATES: The Lacedaemonians, too, whether from admiration
46 Text |      that when the Athenians and Lacedaemonians were at war, our city lost
47 Text |       granted the victory to the Lacedaemonians?’ ‘We,’ (they were to say,) ‘
48 Text |   Hellenes put together. But the Lacedaemonians take no thought of such
49 Text |        The silent worship of the Lacedaemonians pleaseth me better than
50 Text |       worship’ the prayer of the Lacedaemonians, which is indeed widely
51 Text |      that we are superior to the Lacedaemonians by reason of our much worship.
52 Text |          using the prayer of the Lacedaemonians. You had better wait until


The Symposium
   Part
53 Intro|         halved them,—much as the Lacedaemonians have cut up the Arcadians,—
54 Text |   dispersed into villages by the Lacedaemonians (compare Arist. Pol.). And


Theaetetus
   Part
55 Intro|           when the Athenians and Lacedaemonians disputed the Isthmus with
56 Text |     excuse me, and not, like the Lacedaemonians, compel me to strip and