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Promachus, the Bœotian; whilst he was dragging him off by the feet.— The Iliad of Homer (1873)
Hypothebæ, the well-built city, and in sacred Onchestus, the beauteous grove of Neptune; and those who inhabited grape-clustered Arne, and those [who inhabited] Midea, and divine Nissa, and remote Anthedon: fifty ships of these went to Troy, and in each embarked a hundred and twenty Bœotian youths.— The Iliad of Homer (1873)
Peneleus, the Bœotian, first was leader of the flight; for he was wounded slightly [565] on the tip of the shoulder with a spear, being always turned frontwards; but the spear of Polydamas grazed even to the bone, for he, coming close, had wounded him.— The Iliad of Homer (1873)
_The left wing pure Bœotian, which the country folk admired most of all, because it was just like the new barracks in the town, only three times as big.— The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Under her guidance, go on thy way; and where she shall lie down on the grass, there cause a city to be built, and call it the Bœotian [2] {city}.”— The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
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