Battle of 
C'ttsronea. 
RUINS OF CH^RONEA. 179 
ChcEronea was not the original name of this chap. 
V. 
city*; it had more antiently been called Arne : 
this appellation is given to it by Horner'^. Its 
plain, celebrated by the poet for its fertility, 
became very memorable for the battles that 
were here fought ; — for the defeat of the Athe- 
nians by the Boeotians, in the Jifth century before 
Christ ; for the victory obtained by Philip over 
the allied armies of Thebes and Athexs in the 
fourth; and for that which Si/lla obtained over 
the forces of Mithradates in the Jirst. At about 
an hour s distance from the village, a most con- 
spicuous tomb, remarkable for its size and ele- Tomb nf 
. .,, . , . the Thc- 
vation, still remams, an everlasting monument bans. 
of the ensanguined field, resembling the Tomb 
of the Athenians in the Plain of Marathon. It is 
very distinctly mentioned by Pausanias: he 
says it was raised over those Thehans who fell 
in the engagement against Philips This tomb 
is now caWe&'Mangoola. When viewed at the 
eastern extremity of the plain by a person going 
froni. Lehadea to the village of Romaiko, in the 
road to Orchomenus, it is seen to the greatest 
(5) ''S.Kay.ilTo Tt « <!rl>.ts xa) reitoii "Agvtj re a^^aitv. Ibid. c. 40. p 793, 
(6) 07 Ti «oXuffTii(puXn Agvxv ix"' Iliad. B. 507. 
(7) Xl^ifiiiTUf 5« rn v'oXn, VoXvayh^iot Qn(iaiut iffrh if r^ trfih <t>tXtTTt* 
ayZu xfctatirmt. Paustin. Botot, C. 40, p. 795. 
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