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#124836 - 03/08/04 11:45 AM laconic
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Wordsmith likes this word so well it has been Today's Word three times. Date: Wed Jun 6 00:53:11 EDT 2001 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--laconic laconic (luh-KON-ik) adjective Sparing with words, concise, terse. [From Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon, Laconian, a resident of Laconia, an ancient country in southern Greece (Capital: Sparta). From the the reputation of the Laconians for terseness.] The first Latin book I had told about a Persian envoy trying to intimidate the Spartans by saying: "When our archers shoot their arrows, the sun will be blotted out." The Spartan replied: "Good. We will fight in the shade." On another occasion, the Persian envoy delivered a theat about what would happen if Persia invaded Sparta. The Spartan king replied: "If."
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#169911 - 09/10/07 05:14 AM Re: laconic [Re: wwh]
Story Ward stranger Registered: 09/10/07 Posts: 1 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Am reading Paul Cartledge's The Spartans; I love the "if." Thanks for an early morning chuckle.
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#169933 - 09/10/07 07:18 PM Re: laconic [Re: Story Ward]
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	Welcome aboard, Story.
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#169946 - 09/11/07 11:49 AM Re: laconic [Re: Zed]
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Hi, Story and welcome How on earth did you manage to find such an old post by our dear and sadly departed friend?
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