There are 10 instances of Sparta in seven chapters.
Normalized frequency of Sparta in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 6.
Our Attachments Outlive Us
❯ I do dislike that so virtuous a city as Lacedaemon could engage in such a sham of a ceremony: Upon the death …
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 17.
Our Attachments Outlive Us
❯ For Chabrias, senior officer of their navy, who had prevailed over Pollis, Sparta’s admiral, at the island of Naxos, lost all of the benefits of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 37.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them
❯ formality, there are whole nations that make nothing of it. Forget about Spartan women! What about the Swiss, among our foot soldiers? Can you tell …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 37.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them
❯ alone, without any help, and without moaning or saying a word.❦ In Sparta, a mere boy who had stolen a fox — they feared the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 41 · ¶ 5.
On Not Sharing One’s Fame
❯ and renown, without any care of his own. And Theopompus, king of Sparta, to him who told him the republic could not miscarry since he …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 1.
On the Vanity of Words
❯ can make a great shoe for a little foot. They would in Sparta have sent such a fellow to be whipped for making profession of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 1.
On the Vanity of Words
❯ maintained themselves in a regular and well-modelled government, such as those of Lacedaemon and Crete, had orators in no very great esteem. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 452.
Apology for Raymond Sebond
❯ question any of his decrees, as it was those of Lucurgus at Sparta; his doctrine is a magisterial law, which, peradventure, is as false as …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 60.
On Some Verses of Virgil
❯ to go as it did with the officers of the kings of Sparta, trumpeters, fiddlers, cooks, the children of whom always succeeded to their places, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 86.
On Physiognomy
❯ but a Knave of Clubs, which was said of Charillus, king of Sparta: “He cannot be good, seeing he is not evil even to the …