Xenelasia (ξενηλασία, anc) was the title given to a set of laws in ancient Doric Crete and Lacedæmonia that proscribed the exclusion of foreigners and any foreign arts and music into their respective commonwealths. ==Application of Xenelasia laws== ===In Lacedæmonia=== The Xenelasia laws are more famously noted in Sparta. Lacedæmonian ...
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• (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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Xen`e·la'si·a noun [ New Latin , from Greek
xenhlasi`a expulsion of strangers.]
(Gr. Antiq.) 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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