laconization

The strange appearance of these words, and others like them, is due to a combination of laconization and a tendency in koinē to omit the omicron in the final syllables of words ending in -ιος (ios) or -ιος (ion).

Inadvertently, however, oligarchs had overlooked the one major flaw in their laconization policy which the radicals seized upon to whip them into tacit agreement on imperialism. To be specific, laconization in foreign affairs.

If we compare this situation with the Dark Age, it seems appropriate to speak of a thorough cultural Laconization of Messenia.

Krentz makes a strong case that the primary motive for this further purging was not so much greed and fear, as Xenophon and Aristotle suggest, but rather the suppression of overt political opposition coupled with an attempt at the Laconization of the state, that is, reconstructing Athens to copy as closely as possible the Spartan model.