Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Xenelasia

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Xenelasia

（ξενηλασία). The right possessed and exercised by the Lacedaemonian magistrates of expelling from Sparta any stranger whose presence was injurious to the public order or morals. This was an enactment of Lycurgus himself, and was intended to preserve the native character of the Spartans from any taint of foreign influence (De Rep. Lac. 14, 4). See Schömann, Antiq. of Greece, Eng. trans. p. 278.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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