The thespians in that part of the field suffered most severely.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
On their right were the Thebans and those of their province, in the centre the Haliartians, Coronaeans, Copaeans, and the other people around the lake, and on the left the thespians, Tanagraeans, and Orchomenians, the cavalry and the light troops being at the extremity of each wing.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
But the thespians also would not go; and then those Spartans and thespians went out into the open and died gloriously.
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