After that Cadmus came to the land now called boeotia, and the Phenicians who were with him inhabited the land and taught the Hellenes many things, among others the use of writing, "which as it seems to me the Hellenes did not possess before.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
The munificence of the son was extended to cities in Italy, as well as to Corinth, Thessaly, Euboea, boeotia, Elis, and pre-eminently to Athens.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Amphipolis it was out of her ability to restore; but she would endeavour to bring the boeotians and Corinthians into the treaty, to recover Panactum, and send home all the Athenian prisoners of war in boeotia.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides