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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.

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Mentioned in 3 works (4 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 2 mentions
Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 15.9 letters · 1 mention

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