Leuctra

American  

[look-truh] / ˈluk trə /

noun

1. a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Thebans defeated Spartans here 371 b.c.

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Leuctra British  

/ ˈluːktrə /

noun

1. an ancient town in Greece southwest of Thebes in Boeotia: site of a victory of Thebes over Sparta (371 _bc ), which marked the end of Spartan military supremacy in Greece

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Example Sentences

Finally, another opportunity to revolt came in 371 B.C. after the city-state of Thebes defeated Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not alone were the Napoleonic battles thus depicted, but also the great contests of which the boys had read or heard at school,—Thermopyl�, Marathon, Leuctra, Cann�, and Pharsalus.

From Project Gutenberg

The battle of Leuctra transferred the hegemony from Sparta to Thebes, but the attempt to unite Greece under the leadership of Thebes was from the first doomed to failure.

From Project Gutenberg

As is well known, immediately after the battle of Leuctra the Arcadians proceeded to build this metropolis, as a safeguard or makeweight against the neighboring power of Sparta.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a very different thing to hold even the highest magistracy at Thebes or Athens from what it was in the great days of Salamis or Leuctra.

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