ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to ancient Boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times
Boeotian dialects
How To Use Boeotian In A Sentence
- In the other two are ancient vases, lecythi, statuettes and other Mycenaean, Geometrical, Corinthian, Boeotian, Attican and Hellenistic archaeological finds, on loan from the Archaeological Museum.
- There is little doubt that Cadmus was originally a Boeotian, that is, a Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- Greek mythology a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- Poor Ransom announced this fact to himself as if he had made a great discovery; but in reality he had never been so "Boeotian" as at that moment. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
- According to Pindar, there was a time when the Boeotian tribe was called “Syes.” Think Progress » Friedman Defends Repeated Prediction That ‘The Next Six Months Are Crucial’ In Iraq
- Boeotian dialects
- Compare the Boeotian legend of the temple of Dionysos Aigobolos: -- [Greek: thyontes gar tô theô proêchthêsan pote hypo methês es hybrin, hôste kai tou Dionysou ton hierea apokteinousin; apokteinantas de autika epelabe nosos loimôdês; kai sphisin aphiketo hama ek Delphôn, tô Dionysô thyein paida hôraion; etesi de ou pollois hysteron ton theon phasin aiga hiereion hypallaxai sphisin anti tou paidos.] The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
- Laconian territory, he came so close to the gates that their officers actually shut out their own Boeotian cavalry on the point of entering, in terror lest the Lacedaemonians might pour into the town in company, and these Boeotian troopers were forced to cling, like bats to a wall, under each coign of vantage beneath the battlements. Hellenica
- Greek mythology a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- I had to check the dictionary to discover that Boeotians were inhabitants of a city-state northwest of Attica, reputed to be dull and stupid.
