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IL.782.020
18 Feb 1782:12 (4/198)
Account of the Lacedemonians, from the celebrated President
G [illegible] 's origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, among
the Nations of Antiquity. . . [1 1/3 columns] The pleasures
and amusements of the Spartans were of a piece with the
articles we have already mentioned. Their diversions were
of the most serious kind, with very little variety to
recommend them. The Spartans knew no other amusements, but
hunting, and the different bodily exercises, among which I
included dancing; for, as practised by them, it was little
better than a sort of military exercise. They had indeed a
kind of music, but it was very simple, not to say,
altogether rustic. Every thing, in short, that could
properly be called pleasure or amusement, was banished from
Sparta. Even theatrical representations were not allowed
there, though so much admired by all the other cities of
Greece.
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