Also 4–5 Sparciate. [ad. L. Spartiātēs, a. Gr. Σπαρτιάτης, f. Σπάρτη Sparta.] A Spartan.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Macc. xii. 6. Jonathas … and other peple of Jewis, to Sparciatis, bretheren, helthe.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 127. After þat Ionathas renewede frendschipe … wiþ þe Sparciates.
1609. Bible (Douay), 1 Macc. xiv. 19. This is a copie of the epistles, that the Spartiates sent.
1884. trans. Ranke’s Univ. Hist., 366. Aristotle recognises only one thousand families of the ancient Spartiates.
