Orchomenians
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Hellenica (Greek)
Now Lysander carried out all his orders and, besides, caused the Orchomenians to revolt from the Thebans.
in the texts
Hellenica
People of Orchomenus who, absent from the Boeotian coalition earlier, are found allied with Agesilaus at Coronea.
and from the immediate neighbourhood there came to him hoplites of the Orchomenians and Phocians.
And Agesilaus occupied the right wing of the army under his command, while the Orchomenians were at the extreme end of his left wing.
Thereupon some of the mercenaries were already garlanding Agesilaus, when a man brought him word that the Thebans had cut their way through the Orchomenians and were in among the baggage train.
Plataicus
A people invoked as former superiors to Thebes under ancestral custom.
For if it is to our ancestral customs they look, they ought not to be ruling over our other cities, but far rather to be paying tribute to the Orchomenians;
Anabasis
Group identity attached to Cleanor.
To this the Greeks replied as follows, Cleanor the Orchomenian acting as spokesman:
After this two generals went forth from the Greek lines under guard, Cleanor the Orchomenian and Sophaenetus the Stymphalian, and with them Xenophon the Athenian, who wished to learn the fate of Proxenus;