A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Archidamia
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ARCHIDAMIA,
The daughter of king Eleonymas of Sparta, was famed for her patriotism and her courage. When Pyrrhus marched against Lacedemon, it was resolved by the Senate that all the women should be sent out of the city; but Sparta's women would not listen to this proposition. Sword in hand, they entered, with their leader, Archidamia, the senate chamber, and administered to the city fathers a severe reproof for their Want of confidence in woman's patriotism, and declared that they would not leave the city nor survive its fall, if that should take place.