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Laconic Phrase
- gadders 12y agoI think this is my favourite example of a laconic reply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_and_water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_and_water
- denzil_correa 12y ago> After invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: "If" (αἴκα).[27] Subsequently neither Philip II nor his son Alexander the Great attempted to capture the city. Probably, one of the best replies I have ever read.
- chrislaco 12y agoFunny given my one liners, and my last name.