Spartan Mora regiments at Battle of Plataea

[hoplite14gr]

To ancient and modern Greeks the terms of "Lacon", "Lakedemonian" amd "Spartiates" are synonymes.
If you want to consider them as meaning separate things you are naturally entitled to your opinion.
When ancient sources want to distiguish between homioi amd perioikoi they simply make the distinction.
Only in the Roman period there was an attempt to distinguish officialy the population of Laconia as Spartiates and Eleutherolakones - but thats what the Romans wanted to think. The Greeks never adopted the distinction.

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