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  • Xenophon was later exiled from Athens, most likely because he fought under the Spartan king Agesilaus II against Athens at Coronea.

    AS SEEN ON TV: XENOPHON Toby O'B 2010

  • Owing to our divisions they actually conquered the greater part of the country; but we defeated them at Coronea, and liberated Boeotia; 52 and at this moment we are zealously co-operating in the liberation of

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • The circumstances under which Agesilaus was recalled from Asia, with the details of his march and the battle of Coronea, are described by Xenophon in the fourth book of the “Hellenica.”

    Anabasis 2007

  • Coronea — the troops of Agesilaus advancing from the Cephisus, the Thebans and their allies from the slopes of Helicon.

    Hellenica 2007

  • The natural inference from these words is, I think, that the vote of banishment was presently passed, at any rate considerably earlier than the battle of Coronea in B.C. 394, five years and a half afterwards.

    Anabasis 2007

  • Coronea and defeated them, killing many and taking many prisoners.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Once, owing to our internal dissensions, they took possession of our land, but we overcame them at Coronea, and gave Boeotia that complete security which has lasted to this day. 59 Remember the past: let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds, and the younger who are the sons of those valiant fathers do their best not to tarnish the virtues of their race.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • We tell you that a far sadder fate was inflicted by them on our murdered youth, of whose fathers some fell at Coronea in the act of bringing Boeotia to join you, while others are left in their old age by their solitary hearths, and entreat you, with far better reason, to punish the Plataeans.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Haliartus, Coronea, and Copae, and the other dwellers about the

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • The contending forces met on the plain of Coronea, Agesilaus and his troops approaching from the Cephisus, the Thebans and their allies from the slopes of the Helicon.

    Agesilaus 2007

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