Meanings of battle of Plataea in English

Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.

The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Plataea was fought.

Within eighty years after the battle of Plataea, mercenary troops were everywhere plying for battles and sieges.

See Encyclopedia Britannica-article on Greece (Persian Wars subtitle) for account of the Persian invasion and battle of Plataea.

Aristodemus alone remained, branded with disgrace on his return to Sparta; but subsequently redeeming his name at the battle of Plataea.

The war was carried on with energy against Persia, and hostilities continued at intervals for thirty years after the battle of Plataea.

Under Amyntas, who submitted to the satrap Megabyzus, Macedonia became subject to Persia, and remained so till after the battle of Plataea.

Third in order, for the number and valour of the combatants, and third in the salvation of Hellas, I place the battle of Plataea.

But some nations fight flying, after the manner of Aeneas in Homer; or as the heavy-armed Spartans also did at the battle of Plataea.

The sea-fight of Salamis was won by the Greeks against enormous odds; and in the battle of Platæa, B.C.

(See the account of the battle of Plataea, Herodotus, ix, 59-70.)

Six years after the battle of Platæa the career of Xerxes was terminated by assassination, and his son, Artaxerxes Longim'anus, succeeded to the throne.

The Greeks assembled an army of about 100,000 men and in the battle of Platæa the following year utterly defeated it.

478, nearly two years after the battle of Plataea, and the deliverance of Thebes from Persian influence and the sway of a tyrannous oligarchy.