Xenelasia n. : A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.

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Doric, Xenelasia, laws, character, Sparta, foreigners, Antiquities, History, soul, 2nd ed, government, free encyclopedia, Karl Otfried Müller, Crete, influence, Cretans, violence, maxims.

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Xenelasia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Xenelasia (Greek: ξενηλασία) was the title given to a set of laws in ancient Doric Crete and Lacedæmonia that proscribed the inclusion of ...