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Λα^κων-ικός , ή, όν, Laconian,
A.“ἄνδρες” Ar.Lys. 628, etc.; κλειδίον, a kind of key, Id.Th.423, cf. Aristopho 7.4, Men. 343; “Λακωνικὸν πνέων” Ar.Lys.276; “βραχυλογία τις Λ.” Pl.Prt.343b; ἐλάττω ἔχειν γῆν τὸν ἀγρὸν ἐπιστολῆς Λακωνικῆς Prov.in Str.1.2.30, cf. Longin.38.5. Adv. -“κῶς” Diph.96; “συντόμως καὶ Λ.” D.S.13.52.
II. as Subst.,
1. ἡ Λακωνική (sc. γῆ) Laconia, Ar.Pax245, etc.
b. Λακωνικαί (sc. ἐμβάδες), αἱ, Laconian shoes, used by men, Id.V.1158, Th.142, Ec.74, 269, al.
2. τὸ -κόν the state of Lacedaemon, Hdt.7.235; τῆς ὁμιλίας τὸ Λ. Laconian fashion, Plu.Cleom.32.
3. τὸ Λ. Laconian steel, St.Byz.s.v. Λακεδαίμων.
4. Λακωνικόν, τό, female garment, “διαφανῆ Λ.” LXX Is.3.23.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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