laconophile

See also: Laconophile

English

From lacono- +‎ -phile.

laconophile (not comparable)

Alternative form of Laconophile
- 1979, Charles Daniel Hamilton, Sparta's Bitter Victories: Politics and Diplomacy in the Corinthian War‎^[1], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 159:
  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.
- 2003, The Greek Sophists‎^[2], Penguin, →ISBN, page 237:
  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.

laconophile (plural laconophiles)

Alternative form of Laconophile
- 1977, David Malcolm Lewis, Sparta and Persia: Lectures Delivered at the University of Cincinnati, Autumn 1976 in Memory of Donald W. Bradeen‎^[3], Brill, →ISBN, page 28:
  Thucydides was well aware of this, even though most of the major manifestations recorded despairingly by the laconophile Xenophon are after his time.