How To Use Theban In A Sentence
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Through my policy, which he arraigns, instead of the Thebans invading this country with Philip, as all expected, they joined our ranks and prevented him; instead of the war being in Attica, it took place seven hundred furlongs from the city on the confines of Botia; instead of corsair issuing from Euba to plunder us, Attica was in peace on the coast-side during the whole war; instead of Philip being master of the Hellespont by taking Byzantium, the Byzantines were our auxiliaries against him Does this computation of services, think you, resemble the casting of accounts?
III. On the Crown
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Only three years earlier the Thebans had watched in horror as their army had been crushed by Philip and Alexander at Chaeronea.
Alexander the Great
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Alexander asked her who she was and she boldly replied that she was the wife of the Theban commander who had fought his father at the battle of Chaeronea.
Alexander the Great
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The Theban hoplites drilled endlessly and, whether common soldier or wealthy cavalryman, were ruled by iron discipline.
Alexander the Great
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But darkness at last intervened and terminated the engagement. postridie in castra ex urbe ad nos veniunt flentes principes: velatis manibus orant ignoscamus peccatum suom, deduntque se, divina humanaque omnia, urbem et liberos indicionem atque in arbitratum cuncti Thebano poplo. post ob virtutem ero Amphitruoni patera donata aurea est, 260 qui Pterela potitare solitus est rex. haec sic dicam erae nunc pergam eri imperium exequi et me domum capessere.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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The Thebans had perfected the art of hoplite warfare.
Alexander the Great
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The same summer the Thebans dismantled the wall of the Thespians on the charge of Atticism, having always wished to do so, and now finding it an easy matter, as the flower of the Thespian youth had perished in the battle with the Athenians.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Chorus reminds Oedipus that he deserved punishment because it was he who first killed his own father Laius on the road to Thebes, committing the same crime of patricide that prohibits him from being buried on Theban soil.
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Standing, as it were, historically between Mycenae and Athens, and artistically between temple and hippodrome, the Theban Pindar in life was awarded the right to an equal share of first-fruit offer - ings by the Pythian priestess of Delphi, and after death, heroization, his ghost being invited annually to dine with Apollo (Gilbert Norwood, Pindar [1945]).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The California Supreme Court today upheld a voter-approved ban -- the recent so-called Prop 8 -- on same-sex marriage, butin the same rulingdecided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who got married before theban took effect last November will continue as legally married couples.
14 Amendment: R.I.P.
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His next exploit was to fight and conquer the Minyans, who had been exacting a burdensome tribute from the Thebans.
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The Acacia Seyal, formerly abundant by the banks of the river, is now almost entirely confined to certain valleys of the Theban desert, along with a variety of the kernelled dôm-palm, of which a poetical description has come down to us from the Ancient Egyptians.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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A "learned Theban" in the same line in an adjoining street, in order to outdo the "old original" stenciller, thus set forth his pretensions: "Stencilling in all its branches performed in the very height _of acme_!
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
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General warfare did not immediately follow the Spartan seizure of the Theban acropolis, but diplomatic initiatives increased in intensity.
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Among the ecclesiastical treasures the Nazis had sheltered was a reliquary containing a sliver purported to be from the True Cross, a burse or relic box with soil soaked with the blood of the martyr Saint Stephen, a tiny casket with threads from the robe worn by the apostle John, links from a chain that shackled Saint Paul, and an ostensory, or holy container, with a bone of legendary Theban legionnaire Mauritius, otherwise known as Saint Maurice.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
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The Athenian Timagoras supported all these statements of the Theban by independent testimony, and stood second in honour after Pelopidas.
Hellenica
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The Athenians suffered 1,000 casualties, the Thebans more; Athenian prisoners were released without payment, whereas Thebes had to ransom its men.
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Luxor was consecrated to the "Theban Triad": Amon-Ra; his earth-mother consort, Mut; and their moon-god kid, Khonsu.
Letter From Egypt
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Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.
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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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Many years earlier Teiresias had warned the Theban king Oedipus that he was guilty of incest and patricide, but Oedipus had heeded his warning too late.
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Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.
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Alexander had thousands of Macedonian and allied soldiers surrounding Thebes including, as Arrian emphasizes, contingents from Plataea, Orchomenus, and Thespiae—three nearby cities that had suffered severely at the hands of the Theban army in the past.
Alexander the Great
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The Athe - nians were enemies to the Thebanes, and many greate bat - tailes were assaied of theim and foughten: and often tymes the Athenians felt many bitter stormes, and fortune loured of them, he beyng so valiaunt a capitain.
A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
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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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Thebans Amphiaraus, and the Lebadians Trophonius; one religion is as true as another, new fangled devices, all for human respects; great-witted Aristotle's works are as much authentical to them as Scriptures, subtle Seneca's Epistles as canonical as St. Paul's, Pindarus 'Odes as good as the Prophet
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus (467 BC) concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes headed by Eteocles and his supporters.
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The Phliasians escorted their retreating foes a little way up the steep, and then turning off dashed along the road beside the walls, making for the Pellenians and those with them; whereupon the Theban, perceiving the haste of the Phliasians, began racing with his infantry to outspeed them and bring succour to the Pellenians.
Hellenica
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Pelopidas and the Thebans melted like a cloud-castle into air.
Hellenica
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Cho Bong - hyeon is a researcher specializing the North North's economy at thebank Industrial Bank of Korea.
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Realizing that the Theban king has made a terrible mistake after speaking to Teiresias, Creon unseals the cave too late to save the girl.
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Egyptians they found something they called nepenthe, and the Theban women knew how to compound it.
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