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By this time all save the few Mantineans who vainly clung to their champion, and the Laconians themselves, had begun to pin their hopes on the beautiful son of Conon.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns

We attribute too much to the Laconians; as for myself, I know that they are not the cause of all our troubles.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

Ah! no, not that one; one of its toes holds the Laconians in horror.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

At length its power was broken externally by the Theban Epaminondas; and by the restoration of Messenia, the insurrection of the Laconians, and the emancipation of the Helots.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

Listen to your long speeches, after you have treated with the Laconians!

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes