Translation for "boiotialaiset" to english
Boiotialaiset
Translation examples
Hän on yksi kolmesta alkuperäisestä Boiotialaisesta muusasta.
Mneme, one of the three original (Boeotian) Muses.
Peloponnesolaissodan aikana boiotialaiset taistelivat Ateenaa vastaan Spartan rinnalla.
In the Peloponnesian War the Boeotians fought zealously against Athens.
Spartan kansalaisista 400 kaatui taistelussa, kun taas boiotialaisista menehtyi vain noin 300.
One thousand Peloponnesians were killed, while the Boeotians lost only 300 men.
Boiotialaisia oli vain 6 000, mutta heidän ratsuväkensä oli parempi kuin spartalaisten.
The Boeotians opposite them numbered about 6,000, but were bolstered by a cavalry superior to that of the Peloponnesians.
Herodotoksen mukaan sekä Hysiai että Oinoe olivat alun perin osa Ateenan vallassa ollutta Attikaa siihen sakka, kun boiotialaiset valtasivat nämä kaupungit vuonna 507 eaa.
Herodotus says that both Hysiae and Oenoe were Attic demoi when they were taken by the Boeotians in 507 BCE.
Koroneian ensimmäisessä taistelussa vuonna 447 eaa. boiotialaiset voittivat Tolmideen johtamat ateenalaiset, minkä seurauksena Ateena menetti Boiotiasta joksikin aikaa saamansa hallintavallan.
It was here that in the Battle of Coronea (447 BC) the Athenians under Tolmides were defeated by the Boeotians in 447 BCE, in consequence of which defeat the Athenians lost the sovereignty which they had for some years exercised over Boeotia.
Samalla tavalla αι, jonka boiotialaiset olivat ääntäneet pitkäksi ε:ksi neljänneltä vuosisadalta eaa. ja kirjoittaneet η:ksi (esimerkiksi πής, χήρε, μέμφομη), muuttui myös koineessa ensin pitkäksi ja sitten lyhyeksi ε:ksi.
The diphthongs αι, ει, and οι became monophthongs. αι, which had already been pronounced as /ɛː/ by the Boeotians since the 4th century BC and written η (e.g. πῆς, χῆρε, μέμφομη), became in Koine, too, first a long vowel /ɛː/ and then, with the loss of distinctive vowel length and openness distinction /e/, merging with ε.
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