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Leuctra

noun
1.
Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece.  Synonym: battle of Leuctra.






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... Neptune shall sooner bury Salamis itself with his waters than the memory of the trophies gained there; and the Boeotian Leuctra shall perish sooner than the glory of that great battle. And longer still shall fame be before it deserts Curius, and Fabricius, and Calatinus, and the two Scipios, and the two Africani, and Maximus, and Marcellus, and Paulus, and Cato, and Laelius, and numberless other ...
— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero



Words linked to "Leuctra" :   Ellas, Hellenic Republic, Greece, pitched battle



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