Kings Quotes (General)

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"not,indeed by right of merit but merely by right of birth"
Herodotus 5.39
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"the prerogatives of the Spartan kings are these; two priesthoods... and the power of declaring war on whom they please"
Herodotus 6.56
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"they have a bodyguard of a hundred picked men"
Herodotus 6.56
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"no public meetings or elections for ten days"
Herodotus 5.68
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"first to sit down"
Herodotus 6.57
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"same in Sparta as it is in Asia"
Herodotus 6.68
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"served first, getting twice as much"
Herodotus 6.57
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"this corresponds with the Persian custom"
Herodotus 5.69
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"the kings and his entourage are maintained at public expense"
Xenophon XIII
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"the kings decide who has the right to marry her"
Herodotus 6.57
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"was not too rich"
Xenophon XV
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"people from all over Lacedaemon are forced to attend the funeral"
Herodotus 5.68
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"anyone who wished to adopt a child must do it in the king's presence"
Herodotus 6.57
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"the kings is left with no duties on campaign except for those of a priest in the religious field and a general in human affairs"
Xenophon XIII
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"Lycurgus permitted no one else except the Elders and kings to make a proposal"
Plutarch 6
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"kings of Sparta are honoured not as men but as heroes"
Xenophon XV
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"wishing to obtain the favour of the gods before the enemy"
Xenophon XIII
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"everyone stands when the kings enter except the Ephors"
Xenophon XV
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"if the people should make a crooked choice the Elders and rhe founder-leaders are to set it aside"
Plutarch 6
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"they do not greatly exceed the position of a private citizen"
Xenophon XV
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"the prerogatives of the Spartan kings are these; two priesthoods... and the power of declaring war on whom they please"

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Herodotus 6.56

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"they have a bodyguard of a hundred picked men"

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"no public meetings or elections for ten days"

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"first to sit down"

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