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Lycurgus

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Ly·cur·gus  (l-kûrgs) fl. ninth century b.c.
Spartan lawmaker who is considered the founder of the Spartan constitution.
Lycurgus [laɪˈkɜːgəs]
n
(Biographies / Lycurgus (9th century bc-9th century bc) M, Spartan, LAW: lawgiver) 9th century bc, Spartan lawgiver. He is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Spartan constitution, military institutions, and educational system


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In the second place are legislatores, lawgivers; which are also called second founders, or perpetui principes, because they govern by their ordinances after they are gone; such were Lycurgus, Solon, Justinian, Eadgar, Alphonsus of Castile, the Wise, that made the Siete Partidas.
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He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
And after Acrias, they say, Capetus was done to death by Oenomaus, and Lycurgus, Lasius, Chalcodon and Tricolonus.
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