The only other great Bœotian was the poet Pindar, who was living at this time.
That men may rise in folly's atmosphere, Beneath Bœotian fogs, of soul sublime, And great examples to the coming time.
Parnassus is connected toward the southeast with Helicon and the Bœotian ridges.
Yet, for all that, the thing works miracles, and the only wonder is that its first effort in this line was not to change itself into a good picture.
As soon as I had seen your theatre I left it, to go to an Angel whom I adore on account of his good wine.
There is a portrait of the Holy Virgin painted by him preserved in the Church of Silivria, on the shores of the Sea of Marmora; but such a daub!
Marry, (quoth Maister Hobson) the asse that bore him and his mother.
A somewhat similar inscription occurs under one of the very earliest block prints, (now in the possession of Earl Spencer,) evidently made for pasting against the walls in inns, and other places frequented by travellers and pilgrims.
At last, as they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the populace in such profane language, that the public indignation was awakened.
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.
And why are we to quarrel with the Athenians because they took arms, and put themselves on their guard, when a Lacedæmonian or a Bœotian armed force was actually on their frontier?
Accordingly they thought it prudent to occupy Herakleia with a body of Bœotian troops, dismissing the Lacedæmonian governor Hegesippidas for alleged misconduct.
Such were the plans which Kleobûlus and Xenarês laid with the Corinthian and Bœotian deputies, and which the latter went home prepared to execute.
The Corinthian and Chalkidian envoys left Thebes, while the promise of sending Bœotian envoys to Argos remained unexecuted.
This sudden flight, together with the news that a Bœotian force was assembled on the borders of Attica, exasperated still farther the frantic terror of the public mind.
Bœotian towns, we have an isolated indication of the existence in the heroic times of the germ of the names Greece and Greek, which afterwards ascended to, and still retain, such extraordinary fame.
The people of Aspledon and the Minyeian Orchomenus; who are in fact a second Bœotian contingent.
No Bœotian leaders are named: the absence of Oilean Ajax, who officially led the Locrians, is immediately accounted for by saying that he was with his inseparable friend, the Telamonian chief.
From all these coasts, in general, full fifty sail were sent; And six score strong Bœotian youths in ev'ry burthen went.
But he could not pay the Bœotian trierarchs without borrowing money for the purpose on his own credit; for though the sum brought home from his voyage was considerable, it would appear that the demands upon him had been greater still.
Epaminondas, the Theban envoy, insists upon taking the oath in the name of the Bœotian federation.
All the Bœotian cities were now proclaimed autonomous under the convention.
Epaminondas could show, that the presidency of Thebes over the Bœotian cities was the keystone of the federation; a right not only of immemorial antiquity, but pointedly recognized and strenuously vindicated by the Spartans themselves.
Canethus was a mountain on the Bœotian side of the Euripus.
After this they assisted Penthilus in sending out the Æolian colony, and despatched a large body of their own people with him, so that it was called the Bœotian colony.
The poet next mentions the Orchomenians in the Catalogue, and distinguishes them from the Bœotian nation.
This city, and Tanagra, alone of the Bœotian cities exist at present, while of others there remain nothing but ruins and names.
Immediately after Halæ, where the Bœotian coast opposite Eubœa terminates, is the Opuntian bay.
The inhabitants of the Bœotian Coroneia are called Coronii, those of the Messenian Coroneia, Coronenses.
The unknown, with its new animals and fresh landscapes, ever called him on to wider and wider swings from his Bœotian home.
Instinctively the Bœotian fell into an attitude of worship.
It was situated near the north-western extremity of the great Bœotian plain, and commanded the entrance into that plain from the mountainous country to the north-west.
On the sixteenth day of the month Maimakterion, which in the Bœotian calendar is called Alalkomenius, they make a procession headed by a trumpeter sounding the charge.
They repudiated their alliance with the Thebans, and impeached those who had shown Bœotian sympathies; some of these men were put to death, others fined and banished.
On hearing this Agesilaus at first leaped up to go to their assistance; but when he heard that they were completely destroyed, he returned to the temple of Hera, and recalling the Bœotian ambassadors, bade them deliver their message.
He now proceeded to hang garlands upon a hind, and ordered his own soothsayer to offer it as a sacrifice, disregarding the claims of the local Bœotian priest to do so.
The reasons which I here ascribe to Epameinondas are such as we know to have formed the Theban creed, in reference to the Bœotian cities; such as were actually urged by the Theban orator in 427 B.
Bacis was an ancient Bœotian seer of high reputation, who prophesied the Persian invasion among other things: see Herod, viii.
The helmet is forged in one piece, and follows the lines of the Bœotian casque.
The burgonet is of elegant outline, and bears a close enough resemblance to a Bœotian casque.
Agesilaus and the Spartans were thus obliged to be satisfied with the minor triumph, in itself very serious and considerable, of having degraded Thebes from her federal headship, and isolated her from the Bœotian cities.
It was they who now began the Bœotian war; not the Thebans, nor the bribes brought by Timokrates.
His army was thus in imposing force when he reached the neighborhood of Chæroneia on the Bœotian border.
Before he started from Tegea, the Theban deputies returned with the intimation that they were prepared to take the oath for Thebes alone, recognizing the other Bœotian cities as autonomous.
The supremacy of Thebes over the cities composing the Bœotian confederacy appears to have been often harsh and oppressive, though probably not equally oppressive towards all, and certainly not equally odious to all.
State of the Bœotian confederacy—Orchomenus revolts and joins Lysander, who invades Bœotia with his army and attacks Haliartus.
It was the scene of two great battles--the one fought and gained by the Spartans under King Agis, with the help of Bœotian and Corinthian troops, the other by Epaminondas at the head of the Theban confederacy.
In consequence of this exclusion Lychas, a wealthy Lacedæmonian, had to enter for the chariot-race in the name of the Bœotian federation.
This argument not satisfying the people of the district, the Bœotian envoys were seized; but as they pleaded that it was unjust that two women already prejudiced against them should be their judges, two priests were added to decide the matter.
Nor would vengeance have been delayed, had not the raging winds made the seas impassable, and the Bœotian land detained in fishy Aulis the ships ready to depart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "otian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
