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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Epaminondas
Britannica 11thEPAMINONDAS (c. 418-362), Theban general and statesman, born about 418 B.C. of a noble but impoverished family. For his education he was chiefly indebted to Lysis of Tarentum, a Pythagorean exile who had found refuge with his father Polymnis. He first comes in ...
Vol. 9, pp. 666-666
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Artaxerxes
Britannica 11th... ir favour. After the battle of Leuctra, when the power of Thebes was founded by Epaminondas, Pelopidas went to Susa (367) and restored the old alliance between Persia and Thebes. The Persian supremacy, however, was not based upon the power of the empire, but o ...
Vol. 2, pp. 661-663
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Eotvos
Britannica 11th... n the dogma of papal infallibility, promulgated in 1870, and when the bishop of EPAMINONDAS— EPEE Fehervar proclaimed it, Eotvos cited him to appear at the capital ad audiendum iierbum regium. He was a constant defender of the composition with Austria (Ausglei ...
Vol. 9, pp. 665-666
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