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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 69 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 56 (search)
So when the Lacedaemonians had besieged Samos for forty days with no success, they went away to the Peloponnesus.
There is a foolish tale abroad that Polycrates bribed them to depart by making and giving them a great number of gilded lead coins, as a native currency. This was the first expedition to Asia made by Dorians of Lacedaemon.Not the first expedition, that is, made by any inhabitants of Laconia, Achaeans from that country having taken part in the Trojan war.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 145 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 6, chapter 58 (search)
The kings are granted these rights from the Spartan commonwealth while they live; when they die, their rights are as follows: Horsemen proclaim their death in all parts of Laconia, and in the city women go about beating on cauldrons. When this happens, two free persons from each house, a man and a woman, are required to wear mourning, or incur heavy penalties if they fail to do so.
The Lacedaemonians have the same custom at the deaths of their kings as the foreigners in Asia; most foreigners use the same custom at their kings' deaths. When a king of the Lacedaemonians dies, a fixed number of their subject neighbors must come to the funeral from all Lacedaemon, besides the Spartans.
When these and the helots and the Spartans themselves have assembled in one place to the number of many thousands, together with the women, they zealously beat their foreheads and make long and loud lamentation, calling that king that is most recently dead the best of all their kings. Whenever a king dies
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 7, chapter 235 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 11 (search)