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CII/ERONEA AND CORONEA.
with Thebes, in the summer of the year B.C. 33S, to defend the liberties of
Greece against the aggressions of Philip of Macedon; and with the brilliant
and decisive victory which was achieved in the same place by the Roman
army under Sylla, over Archelaus and Taxillcs, the generals of Mithridates.
At the foot of the hill of Coronea, the gallant and courageous leader of
the Athenians Tolmides fell in a skirmish in the year B.C. 447, when he
was on his way homi'wai'd, after the bold attempt which he had made with
the aid of only a thousand volunteers to strengthen the Athenian party,
which the victory of Myronides, ten years before at CEmophyta, had
established in all the cities of Bceotia, but whose power was destroyed by
the disaster, above referred to, at Coronea.
In the year b.c. 392, the same place was distinguished by the victory
which was gained there by the Spartan leader Acesilaus and the inhabitants
of Orchomenus over the combined forces of Argos and Thebes; on which
occasion the victor spared the fugitives who took shelter in the neighbouring
Temple of the Etonian Minerva, and after which he proceeded on a
with Thebes, in the summer of the year B.C. 33S, to defend the liberties of
Greece against the aggressions of Philip of Macedon; and with the brilliant
and decisive victory which was achieved in the same place by the Roman
army under Sylla, over Archelaus and Taxillcs, the generals of Mithridates.
At the foot of the hill of Coronea, the gallant and courageous leader of
the Athenians Tolmides fell in a skirmish in the year B.C. 447, when he
was on his way homi'wai'd, after the bold attempt which he had made with
the aid of only a thousand volunteers to strengthen the Athenian party,
which the victory of Myronides, ten years before at CEmophyta, had
established in all the cities of Bceotia, but whose power was destroyed by
the disaster, above referred to, at Coronea.
In the year b.c. 392, the same place was distinguished by the victory
which was gained there by the Spartan leader Acesilaus and the inhabitants
of Orchomenus over the combined forces of Argos and Thebes; on which
occasion the victor spared the fugitives who took shelter in the neighbouring
Temple of the Etonian Minerva, and after which he proceeded on a