the Boeotarchs
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Boeotarchs
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Against Ctesiphon
Boeotian officials with whom Demosthenes is said to have arranged joint control and whom he denounced over peace with Philip.
Now when Demosthenes saw that such was the situation, suspecting that the Boeotarchs were about to conclude a separate peace and get gold from Philip without his being in it, and thinking that life was not worth living if he was to be left out of any act of bribery, he jumped up in the assembly, when no man was saying a word either in favour of making peace with Philip or against it;
(whose statue, it seems, Pheidias wrought expressly that Demosthenes might have it to perjure himself by and to make profit of) that if any one should say that we ought to make peace with Philip, he would seize him by the hair and drag him to prison—in this imitating the politics of Cleophon, who, they tell us, in the time of the war against the Lacedaemonians, brought ruin to the state.
for he stole the senate-house of the city and the democracy outright and carried them off to Thebes, to the Cadmeia, by his agreement with the Boeotarchs for joint control.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The chief magistrates of the Boeotian confederacy, who negotiate secretly toward alliance with Argos but are checked by their own governing councils.
whom the Boeotarchs sent back after assenting to their terms, and promising to send envoys to Argos on the question of the alliance.
while the Boeotarchs, who before intended, if they carried these measures, to attempt also to effect the alliance with the Argives, did not now bring the question of the Argives before the councils, or send to Argos the ambassadors they had promised;
But before the oaths were taken, the Boeotarchs communicated these resolutions to the four councils of the Boeotians, which have the sole power of ratifying measures;
Hellenica
The chief magistrates of the Boeotian federation, who send horsemen to halt Agesilaus's sacrifice at Aulis and scatter the offered victims.
When he had reached Aulis, however, the Boeotarchs, on learning that he was sacrificing, sent horsemen and bade him discontinue his sacrificing, and they threw from the altar the victims which they found already offered.