Orchomenus

Now the city of Orchomenus, which is next to that of Chæronea, was at variance with it, and hired a Roman informer, who indicted the city for the murder of those persons killed by Damon, just as if it were a man.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

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 Philip Freeman 2011

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 Philip Freeman 2011

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 Philip Freeman 2011

He, for one, planned to die with honor; they could later declare, when asked where they betrayed their leader, At Orchomenus!

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

He, for one, planned to die with honor; they could later declare, when asked where they betrayed their leader, At Orchomenus!

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Sullas veterans might have thought back to their chiefs behavior at Orchomenus when Mithridates men attacked his ditch diggers.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Sullas veterans might have thought back to their chiefs behavior at Orchomenus when Mithridates men attacked his ditch diggers.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009