Crossword-Solution: SPARTA 6 letters, 246 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And, to speak of human affairs, I believe that the pre-eminence of Sparta was due not to the goodness of each of its laws in particular, for many of these were very strange, and even opposed to good morals, but to the circumstance that, originated by a single individual, they all tended to a single end.

That question, I said, is easily answered: the four governments of which I spoke, so far as they have distinct names, are, first, those of Crete and Sparta, which are generally applauded; what is termed oligarchy comes next; this is not equally approved, and is a form of government which teems with evils: thirdly, democracy, which naturally follows oligarchy, although very different: and lastly comes tyranny, great and famous, which differs from them all, and is the fourth and worst disorder of a State.

The driver looked towards Ben, and inquired, “Boy, is this the way to Sparta?” Ben, who was walking leisurely along the path, whistling as he went, never turned his head.

Alexandrus next lands in Lacedaemon and is entertained by the sons of Tyndareus, and afterwards by Menelaus in Sparta, where in the course of a feast he gives gifts to Helen.

When Lycurgus undertook to make laws for Sparta, in what condition did he find this republic? On this point all historians agree.