How To Use Boeotian In A Sentence
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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.
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There is little doubt that Cadmus was originally a Boeotian, that is, a
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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.
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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.
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According to Pindar, there was a time when the Boeotian tribe was called “Syes.”
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Boeotian dialects
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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.]
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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
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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.
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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.
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Pagondas speaks to the Boeotian army to encourage it to attack the Athenians; he calls the fortification of Delium an assault that must be repulsed.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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According to Pindar, there was a time when the Boeotian tribe was called “Syes. †Moreover, the barbarian origin of some is indicated by their names †Cecrops, Codrus, Aïclus, Cothus, Drymas, and Crinacus†¦
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And that this Aeolic speaking poet was a Boeotian of
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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'We were preparing to sign the Treaty of Peace when Epaminondas noticed that the word Boeotian had been changed to Theban.
Lion Of Macedon
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Justifying their occupation of Delium, the Athenians call the Boeotian refusal to return their dead a greater sacrilege.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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At least concerning medial positions, Bailey notes in Essays on time-based linguistic analysis (1996), p. 302, fn.4 (see link): "The [tšː] that one might expect in Attic comes from *tw (τϝ) as well as from *ky [cy]; this is found in Attic, Boeotian, Cretan, and some Euboean lects, while other lects (especially Ionic and Doric) had already moved on to σσ [šː].
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‘We were preparing to sign the Treaty of Peace when Epaminondas noticed that the word Boeotian had been changed to Theban.
Lion Of Macedon
