Laconia

NOUN
  1. an ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus; dominated by Sparta
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How To Use Laconia In A Sentence

  • And though it gall thee to be told so, albeit thy city in Laconia is no doubt mighty fact, yet thou findest no place for his Scyros, displaying wealth 'midst poverty and setting Menelaus above Andromache
  • During the same winter, Hippocrates the Lacedaemonian sailed from the Peloponnese with one Laconian, one Syracusan, and ten The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Laconia or his father's hearth and home, nor come to the town of Pitane or the temple of the goddess 'with the gates of bronze, having taken as his captive her whose marriage brought disgrace on Hellas through its length and breadth and woful anguish on the streams of Simois! The Trojan Women
  • I looked at it with the awe due to a document making some state announcement, and as I was breaking the wax, I felt a dread greater than ever guilty Spartan felt at sight of the Laconian scytale. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
  • Meanwhile, recent excavations in northern Laconia, outside the village of Pellana, have uncovered a Bronze Age cemetery, complete with big and imposing beehive tholos tombs—the largest such tombs found anywhere. The Trojan War
  • Laconian territory, he came so close to the gates that their officers actually shut out their own Boeotian cavalry on the point of entering, in terror lest the Lacedaemonians might pour into the town in company, and these Boeotian troopers were forced to cling, like bats to a wall, under each coign of vantage beneath the battlements. Hellenica
  • A few years ago, Laconia spent $5 million pedestrianizing its downtown, to make it a pleasant shopping environment. I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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