Lacedaemonian

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( a.) Of or pertaining to Lacedaemon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus.

(2): ( n.) A Spartan.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

( Λακεδαιμόνιος ,  2 Maccabees 5:9 elsewhere Σπαρτιάτης ). an inhabitant of Lacedaemon or Sparta, in Greece, with whom the Jews at one time claimed kindred ( 1 Maccabees 12:2;  1 Maccabees 12:5-6;  1 Maccabees 12:20-21;  1 Maccabees 14:20;  1 Maccabees 14:23;  1 Maccabees 15:23). (See Sparta).

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