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Eurotas
the Eurotas
also: Eurotam, Eurotas
The chief river of Laconia, flowing past Sparta. Cicero uses "sitting by the Eurotas" as shorthand for idle retirement in Greece, weighed against a provincial command.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.9 §1 sitting by the Eurotas
The Eurotas is the river of Sparta; "sitting by the Eurotas" is Cicero's shorthand for idle, dishonourable retirement in Greece -- the alternative he weighs against accepting a paltry commission.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.36 the Eurotas
The chief river of Laconia, flowing past Sparta; its banks were a site of Spartan athletic training. Named in the quoted verse among the elements of the Laconian girls' hardy upbringing.