Lycurgus

Proper noun

Meaning

Lycurgus

A male given name

Examples

It would be easy to point out a paragraph in St. Augustine, or a sentence of Grotius that outweighs in influence the Acts of fifty Parliaments, and our cause owes more to Cicero and Seneca, to Vinet and Tocqueville, than to the laws of Lycurgus or the Five Codes of France. John W. Campbell

Certainly when somebody asked what gain the laws of Lycurgus had brought Sparta, he answered, "Contempt for pleasures." Source: Internet

In 1893, Greek-American George Lycurgus leased the guest house of Allen Herbert and renamed it the "Sans Souci" (French for "without worries") creating one of the first beach resorts. Source: Internet

Many more errors came from the tendency of actors to interpolate words and sentences, producing so many corruptions and variations that a law was proposed by Lycurgus of Athens in 330 BC ". Source: Internet

His constitution was said to have formed the basis of that of Lycurgus for Sparta. Source: Internet

Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus The husband continued to visit his wife in secret for some time after the marriage. Source: Internet

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