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Λακεδαιμόνιον (Lakedaimonion)

Λακεδαιμόνιον is an Ancient Greek form of Λακεδαιμόνιος, meaning “Lacedaemonian, Spartan”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138.6: … τεθῆναι κρύφα Ἀθηναίων ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ· οὐ γὰρ ἐξῆν θάπτειν ὡς ἐπὶ προδοσίᾳ φεύγοντος. τὰ μὲν κατὰ Παυσανίαν τὸν Λακεδαιμόνιον καὶ Θεμιστοκλέα τὸν Ἀθηναῖον, λαμπροτάτους γενομένους τῶν καθ’ ἑαυτοὺς Ἑλλήνων, οὕτως ἐτελεύτησεν.

Lucian of Samosata, Demonax 46: καὶ μέντοι καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιόν τινα ἰδὼν τὸν αὑτοῦ οἰκέτην μαστιγοῦντα, Παῦσαι, ἔφη, ὁμότιμον σαυτοῦ τὸν δοῦλον ἀποφαίνων.

All forms of Λακεδαιμόνιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.