Eurotas
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streams of the Eurotas · the Eurotas
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Helen
River of Sparta, closely associated with Helen's homeland and invoked in her oath.
and Castor and his brother, twin glory of their native land, have vanished, vanished, leaving the plains that shook to their galloping horses, and the schools of reed-fringed Eurotas, scene of youthful labors.
For I call on you, I swear to you, Eurotas green with watery reeds, if this rumor of my husband’s death is true—and what was obscure in those words?
he is neither in Argos nor by the streams of the Eurotas.
Andromache
The river of Sparta, invoked metonymically for the Spartan people in Andromache's rebuke of Menelaus.
Is this counted cleverness amongst you who dwell by the Eurotas?
Hellenica
The river guiding the Theban-led army's movement in Laconia.
but keeping the Eurotas on their right they passed along, burning and plundering houses full of many valuable things.
Now when, in its onward march, the army of the enemy came opposite Amyclae, at this point they crossed the Eurotas.