Laconian
noun
a person from or inhabitant of Laconia.
laconian
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/ ləˈkəʊnɪən /
noun
adjective
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It will pick up with the Laconian Empire working to cement its control over the Solar System, as everyone else contends with the forces that decimated the last galactic empire.
From The Verge ● Jan. 5, 2018
Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Resistance of other Laconian towns to the Dorians.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
The Laconian word for “to bury” was τιθήμεναι, Schol.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
Eutelidas the Laconian victorious in the boys' pentathlon.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
It was long before the Laconians grew quiet enough to listen to the call of the herald.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
Ah! my dear sir, the Laconians at all events pull with vigour.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
Friends, leave the Laconians out of debate and consider only whether I have not done well to conclude my truce.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
Their duty, in fact, was to act as a check upon the kings, and they were the representatives of that Nobility which embraced the whole Spartan people, in contradistinction to the Laconians and Helots.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Now a school is a choice of a manner of life, or of something held by one or many, as for example the school of Diogenes or the Laconians.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
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