The corpus record

Λᾰκων-ίζω

*lakonizo

imitate Lacedaemonian manners, dress

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Where it lives

Protagoras 3 · 1.69/10k
Hellenica 8 · 1.22/10k

What it meant

Λᾰκων-ίζω · Lakōn-izō — LSJ

imitate Lacedaemonian manners, dress, speak laconically, titubo

imitate Lacedaemonian manners, dress, etc., Pl. Prt. 342b sq., X. HG 4.8.18, D. 54.34; Λ. τῇ διαίτῃ Plu. Alc. 23; τῇ φωνῇ Id. Symp. 2.150b: hence, speak laconically, Garr. ib. 513a, etc.; = titubo, Gloss.

II act in the Lacedaemonian interest

act in the Lacedaemonian interest, X. HG 4.4.2, etc.

III

= παιδεραστέω, Ar. Fr. 338, Eup. 351.1.

In the wild

λακωνίζοντας · lakōnizontas Plato, Protagoras 342
λακωνιζόντων · lakōnizontōn Plato, Protagoras 342
λακωνίζειν · lakōnizein Plato, Protagoras 343
λακωνίσαι · lakōnisai Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1493)
λακωνίζων · lakōnizōn Xenophon, Hellenica 4.8.18 (DIORISIS sentence 1789)
λακωνιζούσαις · lakōnizousais Xenophon, Hellenica 4.8.28 (DIORISIS sentence 1818)

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