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

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Epeunacti

or Epeunactae (ἐπεύνακτοι, ἐπευνακταί). A class of citizens at Sparta who are said to have been the offspring of slaves and the widows of Spartan citizens. Theopompus tells us (Athen. vi. p. 271 c) that in the Messenian War, in consequence of the great losses which the Spartans sustained, they married the widows of those who were slain to Helots, and that these Helots were admitted to the citizenship under the name of ἐπεύνακτοι. See Partheniae.

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

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