Definition of "Lacedaemonian"

[…] yet if in temperance, thriftines, & noble mind (exceeding all their vanities) he could come to reſtore the Lacedæmonians againe vnto equalitie: that then in deede he ſhould be counted a noble king.

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, page 851

For Kallikrates died out of the battle, he came to the army the most beautiful man of the Greeks of that day - not only of the Lacedæmonians themselves, but of the other Greeks also.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887