Laconic phrase

No, he was right there.

I said, "Laconic."

Out of 3,000?

[laughs]

I didn't know what that- ...

but he did it.

Laconic is like-

Yeah, tell us about terminology

Now there was much good will and friendship on the part of the house of Simon towards the Lacedaemonians.

In order, therefore, that, in case no great or conspicuous achievement should be performed under the generalship of Lacedaemonius, he might so be all the more calumniated for his Laconism, or sympathy with Sparta, Pericles gave him only a few ships, and sent him forth against his will.

And in general he was prone to thwart and check the sons of Simon, on the plea that not even in their names were they genuinely native.

but rather aliens and strangers, since one of them bore the name of Lacedaemonius, another that of Thessalus, and a third that of Eleus.

Now there was much good will and friendship on the part of the house of Simon towards the Lacedaemonians.

In order, therefore, that, in case no great or conspicuous achievement should be performed under the generalship of Lacedaemonius, he might so be all the more calumniated for his Laconism, or sympathy with Sparta, Pericles gave him only a few ships, and sent him forth against his will.

And in general he was prone to thwart and check the sons of Simon, on the plea that not even in their names were they genuinely native.

but rather aliens and strangers, since one of them bore the name of Lacedaemonius, another that of Thessalus, and a third that of Eleus.

Thus the Athenians not only had the Hellespont under their sure control, but even drove the Lacedaemonians at a stroke from the rest of the sea.

A dispatch was captured, announcing the disaster to the ephors in true Laconic style.

Our ships are lost.

Mindarus is gone.