Orchomenians
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Orchomenus · Orchomenian · the Orchomenians
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Hellenica
People of Orchomenus who, absent from the Boeotian coalition earlier, are found allied with Agesilaus at Coronea.
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.
But the force of the enemy which was gathered together included, of the Athenians about six thousand hoplites, of the Argives, according to all accounts, about seven thousand, of the Boeotians (since the Orchomenians were not present) only about five thousand, of the Corinthians about three thousand, and, further, from the whole of Euboea not less than three thousand.
And Agesilaus occupied the right wing of the army under his command, while the Orchomenians were at the extreme end of his left wing.
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;