Meaning of laconophile | Babel Free

Definitions

exhibiting Laconophilia, love for or obsession with the Spartans

not-comparable

Examples

“The point⟳ to be made is that, on his own⟳ evidence from his description of events in Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, his description of Leontiades’ faction as laconophile is insufficient; we must ask⟳ which Spartan faction Leontiades’ faction favored.”

“This is in a somewhat more serious vein than the extracts from his other poems, and brings out the strongly laconophile tendencies which led ultimately to his assuming leadership of the pro-Spartan quisling regime of the Thirty.”

“I would certainly not want⟳ to claim⟳ that Thucydides meant the readers of Pericles’ Funeral Oration to recall⟳ some particular Laconophile tract, nor, a fortiori, that Demosthenes had a copy⟳ of Plato’s dialogues in hand when he composed his speech against Meidias.”

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