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Laconic phrase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A laconic phrase is a very concise or terse statement, named after Laconia (a.k.a. Lacedaemon [Greek Λακεδαίμων ]), a polis of ancient Greece (and region of modern Greece) surrounding the city...
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Laconia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laconia (), also known as Lacedaemonia , is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a prefecture, with Sparti (Sparta) its administrative capital. Its main towns and cities are Amyc...
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Because of their lifestyle the word Spartan now refers to a life free of luxury and the word laconic of language without elaboration, here you'll find out more about these ancient enemies of the Athenians ... The Spartan Hegemony...
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Because of their lifestyle the word Spartan now refers to a life free of luxury and the word laconic of language without elaboration, here you'll find out more about these ancient enemies of the Athenians ... The Spartan Hegemony; Richard Hooker's page explaining the way the Spartans used their period of dominance in Greece...
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Spartan ("laconic") rhetorical style was admired throughout the ancient world, attesting to its high quality — a product of the agoge. ... If Athenians collected Spartan sayings and "laconic" forms of expression were admired, this is clear testimony of the quality of Spartan education in this regard.
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"short and terse and easy to understand" [syn: crisp, curt, laconic, terse] laconic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 55 Moby Thesaurus words for "laconic": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, brief, brusque, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise,
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brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. ... ; I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes; I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. --Pope.
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