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名詞

Spartiate (複数形 Spartiates)

1. A Spartan, especially a full citizen.
   • 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Machabees 14:19, page 940:

     And this is a copie of the epiſtles, that the Spartiates ſent.

   • 1884, Leopold von Ranke, “Relations of Persia and Greece During the First Half of the Fourth Century”, in G[eorge] W[alter] Prothero, editor, Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 366:

     Aristotle recognises only one thousand families of the ancient Spartiates; […]

   • 1994, Paul Anthony Rahe, “The Structure of Politics in Classical Sparta”, in The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece (Republics Ancient かつ Modern), volume I, Chapel Hill, N.C.; London: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 153:

     Other Spartiates commanded troops, but only a king or his regent could normally lead out the Spartan army and the forces of the Peloponnesian League.

   • 2011, Helena P. Schrader, “A Political Expedient”, in Leonidas of Sparta: A Peerless Peer, Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 408:

     Inside, the Spartiates interrupted a tense family drama. Although the voices fell silent at the approach of the two Spartiates, they came into the kitchen to find Chryse in tears, Melissa looking self-righteous, Pelopidas looking beaten, and Laodice and Polychares both angry, while poor Kleon tried to make himself invisible in a corner.

   • 2019, Ed West, Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

     Every year Sparta would formally declare war on its neighbor so that any Spartiate (as full citizens were called—only the child of two Spartiates might become one) could commit murder legally; […]

Further reading

• Spartiate on Wikipedia.

Latin

名詞

Spartiātē

1. ablative/vocative singular of Spartiātēs