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

Probably this office was a source of considerable income, and as the journey from Chaeronea to Delphi, across Mount Parnassus, is a very short one, it interfered but little with his literary and municipal business.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

Externally, it is divided into the chapter which precedes and the chapter which follows Chaeronea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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

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)

The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together by that grave, learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarch of Chaeronea.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office