"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 338 BC the armies of Philip II defeated Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea, effectively limiting Athenian independence.
- After Sparta had defeated Athens, the Greeks invaded Lydia.
- Under Spartan leadership, the League defeated Athens and its allies in 404 BC.
- When Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War, it secured an unrivaled hegemony over southern Greece.
- Ancient Greece had a single language and culture, but was not unified until 337 BC, when Macedonia defeated Athens and Thebes.
- It took a long time for Sparta to defeat Athens but then at the Battle of Aegospotami the Spartans destroyed most of Athens's ships.
- Now at last, at the cost of betraying Greece, Sparta saw the opportunity of acquiring a fleet and so defeating Athens at sea.
- "If you understood why we tolerate all this panhandling, you'd know why Sparta defeated Athens," said an Upper East Side psychoanalyst who did not want his name used.
- It was the product of jingoism and diplomatic hubris, urged by Alcibiades, who fled to rival Sparta in time to assist in defeating Athens.
- FOR many Englishmen of my background, Sparta isn't merely the city that defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War 2,400 years ago.
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