Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the city of Lacedæmon or Sparta in Greece, or to the country of Lacedæmon or Laconia; Spartan; Laconian.
- noun A native of Lacedæmon; a Spartan or Laconian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to Lacedaemonia (
Laconia ) inGreece . - noun An
inhabitant of Lacedaemonia (Laconia ) inGreece .
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Examples
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Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.
Politics Aristotle 2002
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Among the points in which the Carthaginian constitution resembles the Lacedaemonian are the following: The common tables of the clubs answer to the Spartan phiditia, and their magistracy of the 104 to the Ephors; but, whereas the Ephors are any chance persons, the magistrates of the Carthaginians are elected according to merit — this is an improvement.
Politics Aristotle 2002
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They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm.
Les Miserables 2008
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Teian, there was a Lacedaemonian, a Cean, and countless others; there was even a woman, a Lesbian, who wrote with such grace and such passion that the sweetness of her song makes us forgive the impropriety of her words; among our own poets there were Aedituus, Porcius, and Catulus, with countless others.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Teian, there was a Lacedaemonian, a Cean, and countless others; there was even a woman, a Lesbian, who wrote with such grace and such passion that the sweetness of her song makes us forgive the impropriety of her words; among our own poets there were Aedituus, Porcius, and Catulus, with countless others.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Lacedaemonian left wing would be surrounded, and, thinking that the
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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In this battle the line of the Mantineans, who were on the Argive right wing, extended far beyond the Sciritae: and still further, in proportion as the army to which they belonged was the larger, did the Lacedaemonians and Tegeans on the Lacedaemonian right wing extend beyond the Athenian left.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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During the same winter, Hippocrates the Lacedaemonian sailed from the Peloponnese with one Laconian, one Syracusan, and ten
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Argos with their whole forces, including the Helots, under the command of Agis the son of Archidamus, the Lacedaemonian king.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The agreement is to last until the Lacedaemonian ambassadors return from Athens, and the Athenians are to convey them thither and bring them back in a trireme.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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