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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Spartan Lessons; or, The Praise of Valour: in the Verses of Tyrtaeus, an Ancient Athenian Poet, Adopted by the Republic of Lacedaemon, and Employed to Inspire Their Youth with Warlike Sentiments''}}
===by Tyrtaeus===
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}}[[File:TyrtaeusSpartanLessons1759Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Illustration.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus] (685-668 BCE) was a Greek elegiac poet, probably born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta Sparta]. His war songs inspired the Spartans during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Messenian_War second Messenian War] (650-630 B.C.E.)<ref>''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambbd/tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus]," accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> and are examples of early Spartan militarism.<ref>''The Hutchinson Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/heliconhe/tyrtaeus_lived_7th_century_bc Tyrtaeus (lived 7th century BC)]," accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> The name Tyrtaeus has been given to many martial poets who have encouraged their countrymen to deeds of arms and victory.<ref>''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/brewerphrase/tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus]," accessed September 27, 2013.</ref> 

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Tyrtaeus. Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. According to Philip Gaskell, the Foulis Press published one volume of Tyrtaeus, ''Spartan Lessons'', in 1759.<ref>Philip Gaskell, ''A Bibliography of The Foulis Press'', 2nd ed. (Winchester, Hampshire, England: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986), 233-234.</ref> Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]" accessed on February 20, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list this work. Millicent Sowerby also included it in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:474 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=496 [no.4397]].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. The Wolf Law Library acquired a copy of the 1759 Foulis Press edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in green quarter-calf with marbled boards. Spine features raised bands and gilt lettering. Includes marbled endpapers and pencil inscription "1579" on title page.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157659521200002 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991017649369703196 William & Mary's online catalog].

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Jefferson's Books]]
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