Laconicus

[1] Polybius might have only mentioned a "Laconian boy", translated as a name by Livy ("Laconicus").

[2] Other spellings have been suggested instead, such as Laonicus or Leonidas, but Alfred Bradford accepts it as several unusual names were given in Sparta at the time.

[3][4] Bradford furthermore suggests that Laconicus could have been a son of Lycurgus, Eurypontid king of Sparta between 219 and c.212.

However, the strategos of the Achaean League Philopoemen took advantage of the crisis to enter Sparta and forced the city to join his League, ending the independence of Sparta.

[6] The kingship was abolished, and Sparta came under the rule of an oligarchy loyal to Philopoemen.