Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 291
278 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [Jan. THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD LACONIC. BY HARRIETTE E. McCLEER (AGE 12). The word laconic is derived from both the Latinand Greek languages. It is taken from the words La-conian or Lacedaemonian, pertaining to the inhabi- … ACTION (PARADE, YORK, MAINE). BY MABEL W. WHITELEY, AGE 12. tants of ancient Sparta or Laconia, a province or state inancient Greece. In ancient times the people of Sparta spoke in as fewwords as possible, and they soon became noted for thispeculiarity. By degrees the Greeks came to call any one…
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