laconophile

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Laconophile.

   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.

   2003, The Greek Sophists, Penguin, →ISBN, page 237

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   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.

   1979, Charles Daniel Hamilton, Sparta's Bitter Victories: Politics and Diplomacy in the Corinthian War, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 159

plural laconophiles

1. alternativeAlternative form of Laconophile.

   Thucydides was well aware of this, even though most of the major manifestations recorded despairingly by the laconophile Xenophon are after his time.

   1977, David Malcolm Lewis, Sparta and Persia: Lectures Delivered at the University of Cincinnati, Autumn 1976 in Memory of Donald W. Bradeen, Brill, →ISBN, page 28

1. not comparableexhibiting Laconophilia, love for or obsession with the Spartans

   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.

   2007, Josiah Ober, Athenian legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 152

plural Laconophiles · alternative laconophile

1. one who loves or is obsessed with the Spartans

   There is no evidence that he fought with Sparta against Athens, but as he was a notorious Laconophile, he was a suitable choice to lead the oligarchs

   1982, Peter Krentz, The Thirty at Athens, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 46