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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