Chaeronea

American  

[ker-uh-nee-uh] / ˌkɛr əˈni ə /

noun

1. an ancient city in E Greece, in Boeotia: victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians, Thebans, and their allies, 338 b.c.

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Chaeronea British  

/ ˌkɛrəˈniːə /

noun

1. an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 _bc ) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 _bc )

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Example Sentences

Note that he nowhere says “those who conquered,” artfully suppressing any word which might hint at the successful issue of those 40 battles, which would have spoilt the parallel with Chaeronea.

From On the Sublime by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

Hellenism had been the product of the free life of the Greek city-state, and after Chaeronea the great days of the city-state were past.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

At length, in August, 338, came Philip's victory at Chaeronea, and the complete prostration of Greek power.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

Making Athens his head-quarters, from thence as far as Thessaly he was withdrawing the States of Greece from the Roman allegiance, without the least ill success, except at Chaeronea.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Our native Chaeronea was then in a distressed condition, too small and too poor to meet with anything but neglect.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh