laconomania

plural laconomanias

1. alternativeAlternative form of Laconomania.

   The other, affecting the laconomania or the rough manners of the Spartans, wears a coarse cloak and plain sandals

   1831, Samuel Woodworth Horace Smith, Festivals, Games, and Amusements: Ancient and Modern., J. & J. Harper, page 86

plural Laconomanias · alternative laconomania

1. love for or obsession with the Spartans

   This ‘Laconomania’ is met in Plato, Xenophon, Polybius, Plutarch and many others in the ‘classical heritage’, which in time came to inspire generations of lycée-trained young men; a man like Saint-Just is an obvious product of it.

   1957 January 1, Utley Te, Maclure J Stuart, Documents Of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, page 80

   Synonyms: Laconophilia