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Alcander a young man of Sparta attacking Lycurgus and stabbing out one of his eyes when his fellow-citizens were discontented with the laws Lycurgus proposed. Lycurgus, c. 900-800 BC. Quasi-legendary lawgiver of Sparta who established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
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