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• Laconian
  Laconian

  noun

  a person from or inhabitant of Laconia.
• laconian
  laconian

  noun

  a native or inhabitant of Laconia, the ancient Greek country of which Sparta was the capital

Laconian

American  

[luh-koh-nee-uhn] / ləˈkoʊ ni ən /

noun

• Laconians
  plural

1. a person from or inhabitant of Laconia.

2. an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Laconia.

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adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of Laconia.

laconian British  

/ ləˈkəʊnɪən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Laconia, the ancient Greek country of which Sparta was the capital

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adjective

1. of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants

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Noun Inflected Forms

• Laconians
  plural

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Laconian Laconians

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

Gods! to think that they have ventured with Laconian men to deal, Men of just the faith and honour that a ravening wolf might feel!

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

The bidiæi are called in the inscriptions βίδεοι, or βίδυοι; this, according to Boeckh's ingenious explanation, is the Laconian form of ἴδυοι, ϝίδυοι, and signifies witnesses and judges among the youth.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

The arrow from a Laconian helot had smitten through the silvered mail.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

For instance, the Molossian dance consisted of three long steps, ; that of the Laconians was the dactyl, , which was sometimes reversed .

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell

Laconians, approach; and you, Athenians, on my other side.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

The cavalry were thus distributed: the Laconians, Thebans, and all the Macedonians present were posted on the right.

From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns

This was like the custom of the Spartans, or Laconians, who, eschewing the luxury of reclining, always persisted in sitting at meals.

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley

When Archelaus appeared in Greece, the Achaeans, Laconians, and Boeotians, with the exception of Thespiae, joined him, while the Pontic fleet seized Euboea and Demetrias, a town at the head of the gulf of Pagasae.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A.H. Beesley

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