At this Agesilaus leaped to his feet in a rage, and asked him to state clearly whether he meant to leave Bœotia independent.
We must recollect that Epameinondas does not contend that Thebes was entitled to as much power in Bœotia as Sparta in Laconia.
He was here met by Diphridas the Ephor, who brought him orders to invade Bœotia immediately.
He now marched through Thermopylæ, crossed the friendly country of Phokis, and entered Bœotia near Chæronea.
Footnote 232: "Our city" will explain why Plutarch has described the campaign in the plains of Bœotia at such length.
Bœotia is a high table-land surrounded by mountains, and all the drainage of the plain of which those of Elateia and Orchomenus are part is received in the basin of the lake, which has no outlet.
It was near the Euripus, within Bœotia and on the borders of Phokia.
Pausanias marched in a circuitous course over Mount Kithæron, meaning to invade Bœotia on that side, while Lysander with a large force came to meet him through Phokis.
Footnote 249: Orchomenus, one of the oldest towns in Bœotia and in Greece, is situated near the point where the Kephisus enters the great Lake.
But Sulla was as quick as Archelaus, and moved into Bœotia from a niggardly region, which even in time of peace could not have maintained his troops.
As fern grows in untilled grounds, and all manner of weeds, so do gross humours in an idle body, Ignavum corrumpunt otia corpus.
In this capacity they traced a boundary between the conflicting states, and decreed that the Thebans were not to interfere with any people situated in Bœotia who did not choose to be members of the Bœotian confederacy.
In Bœotia was a cavern, into which the river Cephisus descended, and was lost.
Cithaeron=: a mountain range south of Thebes and between B[oe]otia and Attica.
Above it is the Itonus, where is the temple of the Itonian Minerva, from which that in Bœotia has its name, also the river Cuarius.
They returned afterwards to their own country, at the time the Æolian expedition was preparing at Aulis in Bœotia which the descendants of Orestes were equipping for Asia.
Medeon, belonging to Phocis, is on the Crisæan Gulf, distant from Bœotia 160 stadia.
The rest of the countries mentioned by Strabo no longer retain the ancient divisions, Bœotia is the modern Livadhia.
We should perhaps read Harma, says Kramer; but in that case Tanagra of Bœotia would be upon the right hand.
Ephorus declares the superiority of Bœotia over the bordering nations not only in this respect, but also because it alone has three seas adjoining it, and a great number of harbours.
In theOtia Imperialia of Gervasius of Tilbury, we see this belief in formation; the main point in that work is that he is the protector of Naples, defending it by various contrivances from war or pestilence.
He knew now for what Themistocles reserved him,—that after the Nausicaä made land he must run, as never man ran before across wide Bœotia to bear the tidings to Pausanias.
The harbour towns were in black ruins, for Mardonius had wasted everything before retiring to Bœotia for his last battle.
Bœotia was always the paradise of farmers, who from the conditions of their life became famous for their stupidity.
Jason of Pheræ arrives at Leuktra—the Spartan army retires from Bœotia under capitulation.
He contended that the presidency of Bœotia was held by Thebes on as good a title as the sovereignty of Laconia by Sparta.
Epaminondas was relieved from a most formidable rival, while the body of Theban allies north of Bœotia became much more dependent than they would have remained, if there had been a competing power like that of Jason in Thessaly.
Moreover, Pausanias also expressly says that the Thespians were present in Bœotia at the time of the battle of Leuktra, and that they were expelled shortly afterwards.
Bœotia and invade Phokis; which implies the expulsion or retirement of all the Lacedæmonian forces from the southern part of Bœotia.
We must recollect that Epaminondas does not contend that Thebes was entitled to as much power in Bœotia as Sparta in Laconia.
Few persons out of Bœotia doubted of the success of Sparta.
Most of their cities were under oligarchies, dependent upon her support for authority over their fellow-citizens; moreover, the recent events in Bœotia and at Mantinea had operated as a serious intimidation.
All the other cities in Bœotia also sent aid to Thebes too,—so that there was assembled there a large force of twelve thousand hoplites and two thousand horsemen.
The functions of general now devolved upon the other king Kleombrotus, who in the next spring conducted the army of the confederacy to invade Bœotia anew.
Text and translation in Otia Merseiana (the publication of the Arts Faculty, University College, Liverpool), vol.
M474) After the success of the Lacedæmonians at Tanagra they made no expeditions out of the Peloponnesus for several years, and allowed Bœotia and Phocis to be absorbed in the Athenian empire.
All the cities of Bœotia acknowledged the Theban supremacy, while the harmosts which Sparta had placed in the Grecian cities were forced to return home.
Bœotia contained the largest lake in Greece—Copaias, famed for eels.
On the march through Bœotia one thousand men from Thebes and Thespiæ joined them, though on the point of submission to Xerxes.
In the north of Bœotia arose the city of Orchomenus, whose treasures were compared by Homer to those of the Egyptian Thebes.
The army of Xerxes was advancing through Phocis and Bœotia to the Isthmus of Corinth, while the navy sailed unobstructed through the Eubœan Sea.
It was anticipated that so powerful a State as Sparta would soon accomplish her object, and few out of Bœotia doubted her success.
M518) Forces from all parts of Bœotia rallied, and met the Athenians.
M295) Bœotia was the richest State in Greece, so far as fertility of soil can make a State rich.
Between Athens and Bœotia there was an armistice terminable at ten days’ notice.
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