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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.

Etymologies

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Latin Peloponnesius, from Peloponnesus, Ancient Greek literally the island of Pelops.

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Examples

  • Corinth on the side of the people and Corcyra on the side of the oligarchs led to the deeper conflict between Athens, Sparta, and their respective allies known as the Peloponnesian War.

    Under Albanian Soil 2004

  • The “rest of the allies” here refers to the Peloponnesian League See Appendix D, The Peloponnesian League, ©3-4.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • The “rest of the allies” here refers to the Peloponnesian League See Appendix D, The Peloponnesian League, ©3-4.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • By the close of the sixth century B.C. the Spartans were able to conquer their immediate neighbors and to organize some of the city-states of the Peloponnesus into a strong confederacy called the Peloponnesian

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • Our present task is to describe the chief incidents in the cruel and devastating war, commonly known as the Peloponnesian War, which lasted for twenty-seven years, and finally broke up the Athenian Empire.

    Stories from Thucydides

  • From this arose the long conflict known as the Peloponnesian War, which lasted for twenty-seven years, its real cause being that Sparta was determined to lead Greece.

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 25, April 29, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

  • Sparta known as the Peloponnesian War, the causes and chief incidents of which we shall next rehearse.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • -- During the closing years of the life of Pericles, the growing jealousy between Athens and Sparta broke out in the long struggle known as the Peloponnesian War.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • I was reading the account of the war between Athens and Sparta, known as the Peloponnesian War.

    The Freedom of the Seas 1930

  • The war which then began, and which in history is known as the Peloponnesian War, lasted almost as long as the truce; that is to say, for nearly thirty years.

    The Story of the Greeks 1894

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