Greece
- Arcadia: from Arcas, the legendary eponymous leader of early Hellenic settlers
- Sparta: from Greek Σπάρτη spartē, a cord or rope made from the shrub spartos, a type of broom
- Macedonia, from Greek mak- (long, tall) - 'highland'.
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Famous quotes containing the word greece:
“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins!”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbors;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labors.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)