The corpus record

Λάκων

*lakon · ὁ

a Laconian

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Where it lives

Politics 21 · 3.22/10k
Athenian Constitution 4 · 2.46/10k
Anabasis 13 · 2.31/10k
Hippias Major 1 · 1.18/10k
Meno 1 · 1.02/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Hellenica 6 · 0.91/10k
Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 4 · 0.71/10k
Rhetoric 3 · 0.7/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

a Laconian, Lacedaemonian, Laconian

a Laconian or Lacedaemonian, prop. of men, as Λάκαινα of women (Phryn. 321), Pi. P. 11.16, Hdt. 7.161, Th. 3.5, Ar. Ach. 303, etc. (never in Trag.): also as Adj., Laconian, λόγος S. Fr. 176; πέπλοι AP 6.292 (Hedyl.).

Λάκων, ὁ, a throw of the dice, Eub. 57.

In the wild

Λάκωνα · Lakōna Aristotle, Ars Poetica 25
Λάκωσι · Lakōsi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..19 (DIORISIS sentence 238)
Λακώνων · Lakōnōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..19 (DIORISIS sentence 242)
Λάκωσιν · Lakōsin Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..19 (DIORISIS sentence 244)
Λάκωνας · Lakōnas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..23 (DIORISIS sentence 300)
Λάκων · Lakōn Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7

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Where it came from

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