Note 136 — Women in Greek Poetry (continued 2)

Its prevalence among the Lacedaemonians, in spite of the influential position of women in that state, is vouched for by the usage of the word λακωνίζω. Vide Meineke, Com. Fr. ii. pp. 200, 1088. (The derivation mentioned by Photius, Meineke l.c., seems due to Aristophanes, and need not be taken seriously.)