My favorite example of Laconic wit, as recounted by Plutarch:
…when Philip [of Macedon] wrote thus to the Spartans: “If once I enter into your territories, I will destroy ye all, never to rise again”; they answered him with the single word, “If.”
My favorite example of Laconic wit, as recounted by Plutarch:
…when Philip [of Macedon] wrote thus to the Spartans: “If once I enter into your territories, I will destroy ye all, never to rise again”; they answered him with the single word, “If.”
Nick Louras 