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LEONIDAS , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sparta, the seventeenth of the Agiad See also:line. He succeeded, probably in 489 or 488 B.C., his See also:half-See also:brother Cleomenes, whose daughter Gorgo he married. In 48o he was sent with about 7000 men to hold the pass of See also:Thermopylae against the See also:army of See also:Xerxes. The smallness of the force was, according to a current See also:story, due to the fact that he was deliberately going to his See also:doom, an See also:oracle having foretold that Sparta could be saved only by the See also:death of one of its See also:kings: in reality it seems rather that the ephors supported the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme half-heartedly, their policy being to concentrate the See also:Greek forces at the See also:Isthmus. Leonidas repulsed the frontal attacks of the Persians, but when the Malian Ephialtes led the See also:Persian See also:general Hydarnes by a See also:mountain track to the See also:rear of the Greeks he divided his army, himself remaining in the pass with 300 Spartiates, 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans. Perhaps he hoped to surround Hydarnes' force: if so, the See also:movement failed, and the little Greek army, attacked from both sides, was cut down to a See also:man See also:save the Thebans, who are said to have surrendered. Leonidas See also:fell in the thickest of the fight; his See also:head was afterwards cut off by Xerxes' See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and his See also:body crucified.
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