The prophetesses however give a different meaning to the answer of the oracle, and say, that the god enjoins the Bœotians to steal the tripods used at home, and to send them annually to Dodona.
They preserved their dominion, and exercised it over the greatest part of the Bœotians till the time of the expedition of the Epigoni.
It was here that the Athenians under Tolmides were defeated by the Bœotians in B.
The Pelasgi and the Bœotians also went during the war to consult the oracle.
The Bœotians alleged that there was no law permitting women to act as judges; an equal number of men were therefore chosen.
The Bœotians took possession of it on their return from the Thessalian Arne, after the Trojan war, when they also occupied Orchomenus.
He cannot tell, he says, what answer was given to the Pelasgi, but the prophetess replied to the Bœotians that they would prosper by committing some act of impiety.
Hence at Dodona it is to the Bœotians only that men deliver oracles.
At length, however, they succeeded in this, and the Thebans with their allied Bœotians were marched out from Thebes to Leuktra, where they were posted on a declivity opposite to the Spartan camp.
When the Athenians wished to decide some dispute about territory by arms instead of by arbitration, Phokion advised them to fight the Bœotians with words, in which they were superior, not with arms, in which they were inferior to them.
The events of the war bore out the justice of his remark; for at first Leosthenes was elated by his great success, as he defeated the Bœotians in a pitched battle, and drove Antipater into Lamia.
The losses of the Persian fleet by storm and battle were repaired by reinforcements drawn from the islanders, Bœotians and others, upon its arrival at Phalerum, one of the ports of Athens.
On their march, however, the Bœotians set upon them, and were very rightly served in being defeated in the battle which ensued.
The Bœotians charged them, and after a short resistance, broke them completely, forcing them to take flight.
Chance seemed to favor the purpose at once: for on their road home, they were accosted by two Argeians, senators in their own city, who expressed an earnest anxiety to bring about alliance between the Bœotians and Argos.
The Bœotians were entreated to accompany the Corinthians to Athens, and obtain for them from the Athenians an armistice terminable at ten days’ notice, such as that which they had contracted for themselves.
The Bœotians and Megarians refuse to break with Sparta, or to ally themselves with Argos—the Corinthians hesitate in actually joining Argos.
By renouncing their special alliance with the Bœotians, unless the Bœotians on their side chose to become parties to the peace with Athens.
Among the forces of the Bœotians was the famous Theban band of three hundred select warriors, accustomed to fight in pairs, each man attached to his companion by peculiar ties of friendship.
A change of ephors at Sparta favored hostile measures, and an alliance was made between the Bœotians and Lacedæmonians.
The Thebans and Bœotians appeared to be zealous, but were governed by fear merely of a superior power, and hence were unreliable.
The Eubœans and Bœotians both prosecuted it in such numbers, and with so much zeal, that it was speedily brought to completion.
Others also lent money; some Bœotians furnished two talents, and a person named Gelarchus contributed the large sum of five talents, repaid in after times by the people.
The Thebans and Bœotians were probably in full force, and more numerous than at Corinth, since it was their own country which was to be defended.
Now Xenophon also mentions, three or four months afterwards, the Bœotians as being anxious for peace, and as sending envoys to Agesilaus to ask on what terms it would be granted to them (Xen.
So much were the Athenians and the Bœotians alarmed at this new success, that both appear to have become desirous of peace, and to have sent envoys to Sparta.
It was Ismenias, who, at the head of a body of Bœotians and Argeians, undertook an expedition to put down the Spartan influence in the regions north of Bœotia.
One point much insisted upon in the oration is, that the Bœotians were anxious to make peace with Sparta, and were willing to relinquish Orchomenus (s.
Some malcontents, left after the violent interference of the Spartan Herippidas two years before, opened the gates of Herakleia by night to the Bœotians and Argeians.
The very altars of the Gods were crimsoned with the vengeance taken by the Phocians, the Plataeans, and the B[oe]otians for the centuries of cruel oppression that they had suffered from the rapacious brood of the Dragon.
Even the B[oe]otians must be satisfied by this time.
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