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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Chaeronea

It was not, indeed, the old native worship of the valley of the Nile which won such an empire over cultivated intellects from Chaeronea to the Thames.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

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

It was here also that Sulla defeated Mithridates, and in the great civil wars of Rome we again hear, this time from Plutarch himself, of the sufferings of the citizens of Chaeronea.

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

The god had his surname from Thuro, mother of Chaeron, whom ancient record makes founder of Chaeronea.

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

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