The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lacedaemonian \Lac`e*d[ae]*mo"ni*an\, a. [L. Lacedamonius, Gr. Lakedaimo`nios, fr. Lakedai`mwn Laced[ae]mon.] Of or pertaining to Laced[ae]mon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n. A Spartan. [Written also Lacedemonian.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780, from Latin Lacedaemonius, from Greek Lakedaimonios, from Lakedaimon, an ancient Greek name for Sparta and the district around it.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece. alt. Of or pertaining to Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece. n. An inhabitant of Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
a. (obsolete form of Lacedaemonian English) n. (obsolete form of Lacedaemonian English)
Usage examples of "lacedaemonian".
Kallikrates died out of the battle, he came to the army the most beautiful man of the Greeks of that day--not only of the Lacedaemonians themselves, but of the other Greeks also.
Chapter XVI Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese - League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians - Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League After the treaty and the alliance between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, concluded after the ten years' war, in the ephorate of Pleistolas at Lacedaemon, and the archonship of Alcaeus at Athens, the states which had accepted them were at peace.
The Orchomenians, alarmed at the weakness of their wall and the numbers of the enemy, and at the risk they ran of perishing before relief arrived, capitulated upon condition of joining the league, of giving hostages of their own to the Mantineans, and giving up those lodged with them by the Lacedaemonians.
The Syracusans had for allies all the Dorian cities except Camarina these had been included in the Lacedaemonian confederacy from the commencement of the war, though they had not taken any active part in it the Leontines had Camarina and the Chalcidian cities.
The Athenians were persuaded by Alcibiades to inscribe at the bottom of the Laconian pillar that the Lacedaemonians had not kept their oaths, and to convey the Helots at Cranii to Pylos to plunder the country.
The Lacedaemonians accordingly laid waste the Parrhasian country, and the Mantineans, placing their town in the hands of an Argive garrison, addressed themselves to the defence of their confederacy, but being unable to save Cypsela or the Parrhasian towns went back to Mantinea.
This district had been given by its Lacedaemonian owners to the expelled Aeginetans to inhabit, in return for their good offices at the time of the earthquake and the rising of the Helots.
Certes among the Lacedaemonians it was found out that great numbers of merchants were nothing to the furtherance of the state of the commonwealth: wherefore it is to be wished that the huge heap of them were somewhat restrained, as also of our lawyers, so should the rest live more easily upon their own, and few honest chapmen be brought to decay by breaking of the bankrupt.
The Lacedæmonians were fed by the Helotes, the Cretans by the Periecians, and the Thessalians by the Penestes.
In the course of the summer Philip lent armed assistance to the Achaeans, who had implored his aid against Machanidas, tyrant of the Lacedaemonians, and against the Aetolians.
The Romans on their side extended its provisions to the Ilienses, King Attalus, Pleuratus, Nabis, tyrant of the Lacedaemonians, the Eleans, the Messenians and the Athenians.
Philip promised to relieve them from all anxiety so far as Nabis and the Lacedaemonians were concerned.
Furnish me then, if you approve, with such a force as shall suffice to garrison Oreus, Chalcis and Corinth, so that with all safe in my rear I may make war upon Nabis and the Lacedaemonians free from misgivings.
He impressed upon us the sanctity of the same treaty and oath, but if we were to ask of him, by virtue of the same treaty and oath, that Philip should defend us from Nabis and the Lacedaemonians, he would not be able to find a force adequate for our protection or even an answer to our request, any more than Philip himself could have done last year.
When Nabis and the Lacedaemonians are pressing us by land and the Roman fleet by sea, from what quarter am I to appeal to our alliance with the king and implore the Macedonians to help us?