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单词 Boeotian
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Boeotian

/bɪˈəʊʃ(ə)n / /bɪˈəʊʃɪən /
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the ancient or modern Greek region of Boeotia or its inhabitants: he was called upon to rescue the Boeotian army when it got into difficulties in Thessaly...
  • 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.
  • He frustrated Thebes' plans for a united Boeotian federation by referring Plataea to Athens for alliance (probably in 519).
  • The papyrus fragments consistently reflect the Boeotian orthography of the late 3rd cent.
noun
An inhabitant of the Greek region of Boeotia: he seems to have been a Boeotian by descent...
  • Then Actaeon, the young Boeotian, spoke to his companions in the hunt as they wandered through the solitary wilds.
  • My allusions are to Sostratus the Boeotian, whom the Greeks called, and believed to be, Heracles; and more particularly to the philosopher Demonax.
  • Sparta failed to co-ordinate a two-pronged attack on the Boeotians, and Lysander was killed in a Spartan defeat at Haliartus in Boeotia.
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