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4810 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *z, entry *zeu/s
   (Chios, iv B.C.), , , (Sparta, ii A.D.); (16.37)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *k, entry kaia/das
   a pit or underground cavern at Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown, , :—the forms (16.37)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *s111, entry skifa_to/mos
   (Sparta, i B.C.): cf. (16.37)

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16 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Spartan
   Spartan, native of Sparta: hounds . (6.11)

2. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Sparta
   Sparta, town in ancient Greece: . (4.71)

3. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 4, scene 1, line 100
   The. A cry more tuneable
   
   
   Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,
   
   
   In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:
   
   
   Judge when you hear.
   (4.36)

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1 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section CHARACTER OF VOLUMNIA, subsection Jameson
   Volumnia would never have exclaimed like the Spartan mother, of her dead son, ‘Sparta has many others as brave as he’; but in a far different spirit she says to the Romans, ‘Ere you go, hear this;
   As far as doth the Capitol exceed
   The meanest house in Rome, so far my son,
   Whom you have banished, does exceed you all. (1.62)

18 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Augustus J. C. Hare, Volume 2: Walks in London chapter 1, page 12
   Cleombrotus banished by his father-in-law, Leonidas II. of Sparta. (3.93)

2. Henry Mayhew, Extra Volume: London Labour and the London Poor chapter 5, page 45
   It is asserted, indeed, by some, that adultery was unknown in Sparta. (2.80)

3. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 4 chapter 30, page 389
   The matrons, like those of Sparta, attend their sons to the field, to be the witnesses of their glorious deeds; and the maidens, with all their charms displayed, provoke the spirit of the soldiers. (2.40)

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3 from American Memory: California

1. Life and adventures of Col. L. A. Norton page 31
   " We assembled at the village of Sparta, in the town of Yarmouth, where we organized, choosing Joshua Done as our captain, and at once commenced our march for Otter Creek (a village of Richmond). (2.80)

2. A journey to, on and from the "golden shore," by Sue A. Sanders page 75
   Mr. and Mrs. J. Davidson, and Mrs. M. A. Thayer, Sparta, Wisconsin; Alice Natile, New Orleans, La.; Mrs. A. R. McPhetus, Bloomington, Ind.; Mrs. M. L. Pratt, Cambridge Port, Mass. (2.05)

3. Alonzo Delano's California correspondence: being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1952. Edited by Irving McKee. Maps by Stewart Mitchell. Decorations by Harry O. Diamond page 59
   Sparta could not hold a candle to it. (1.10)

69 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Notable men of Wisconsin page 126
   WILBUR T. SARLES, M. D.,
   President Wisconsin State Medical Society 1899—1900;
   Physician to State Public School Hospital;
   Mayor City of Sparta 1894—'97
   Sparta. (5.61)

2. Facts and Figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistical, political, financial, economical, commercial. By Frank J. Bramhall page 41
   Sparta (4.36)

3. Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of the Michigan Legislature, Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and State Board of Education page 295
   Shortly afterwards his wife died and in 1872 he was again married to Elizabeth Smith, of Norwalk, O. Later he moved to Sparta village where he made his home although continuing farming. (4.36)

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7 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Camilla, Or, Twenty-Four Hours on the Potomac page 5
   let remembrance o'er them flowers strew
   Till angel drummers beat the last tattoo;
   Then wake to glory with great Sparta's band
   To carve, on pillars everlasting grand,
   Each dear remembered, each yet unknown name,
   To glow like diamonds on the walls of fame. (4.14)

2. Henry Robinson Pollard, Memoirs and sketches of the life of Henry Robinson Pollard; an autobiography page 390
   The third of that name, his worthy grandson, is still the pastor, after a service of more than a quarter of a century, in the Sparta Baptist Church of Caroline County, and is a dear and cherished friend of mine. (1.58)

3. A candid appeal to the freemen of Maryland on the projected removal of their seat of government page 6
   The old republicans of Rome and Sparta would have listened with amazement to language like this. (1.54)

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11 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 302107
   Sparta, Archaeological Museum (6.60)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 1849
   Sparta, Archaeological Museum (6.60)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 12772
   SPARTA (4.47)

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