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How to use Boeotian in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Boeotian? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The papyrus fragments consistently reflect the Boeotian orthography of the late 3rd cent.
Then Actaeon, the young Boeotian, spoke to his companions in the hunt as they wandered through the solitary wilds.
The Boeotian league began in the 5th century BC as a political federation under the leadership of Thebes.
He frustrated Thebes' plans for a united Boeotian federation by referring Plataea to Athens for alliance.
It was a Boeotian custom to burn the axle of the cart in which the bride was brought to mark the finality of the migration.
Chaeronea, a small Boeotian city located 31 miles north of Thebes, commanded the Cephissus valley.
After the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 bc, most Boeotian cities joined the Persians, but Thespiae and Plataea continued to resist them.
Athamas, in Greek mythology, king of the prehistoric Minyans in the ancient Boeotian city of Orchomenus.
Orchomenus, also spelled Orchomenos, or Erchomenos, ancient Boeotian town on a promontory on the north of the Copiac plain.
Another two items, a sixth century BC Thasian relief and a fourth century BC Boeotian stele, were returned in August 2006 following an amicable agreement after a similar claim.
Herodotus, for example, remarks on the military effectiveness of the infant Cleisthenic state, which had to deal immediately and successfully with Boeotian and Euboean invasions.
The Theban resistance was ineffective, and Alexander razed the city and divided its territory between the other Boeotian cities.
Examples from Classical Literature
An Athenian once fell in with a Boeotian who was sitting by the road-side looking at a frog.
Very true, said Cebes, laughing gently and speaking in his native Boeotian.
This was a certain Apollonides there present, who spoke in the Boeotian dialect.
This does no more prove that Hector was a Boeotian than that he was an Athenian.
The Boeotian potter may have appropriated the scene from an Athenian source.
This consists of the frontal portion of a Boeotian bridle, over parts of which leather straps had probably been tightly fixed.
But I fear Hesiod will still be found correct in his description of a Boeotian winter.
The Boeotian left, as far as the centre, was worsted by the Athenians.
Lehmann, remarking that the heroines are all Boeotian and Thessalian, believes the author to have been either a Boeotian or Thessalian.
In my own case there followed my acquaintance with these authors certain Boeotian years, when if I did not go backward I scarcely went forward in the paths I had set out upon.
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