I was about to tell you last time about the poet Hesiod, who lived in a little town in Boeotia to the north of Attica.

上次我讲到,住在阿提卡北面小镇皮奥夏的诗人,赫西奥德

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Finally, Thebes, the greatest city in Boeotia, also does not colonize.

最后,底比斯,皮奥夏地区最伟大的城市,也未殖民

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The northern most settlements on that coast spoke Greek with an Aeolian dialect; the Aeolian dialect is the one that you see on the mainland in places like Boeotia for instance Thebes and so on.

在北部,大多沿海移民,都说伊奥利亚方言,伊奥利亚方言,在内陆,例如皮奥夏和底比斯,等地较为普及

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I say that a typical phalanx is eight; however, by the time you get down to the fourth century and people are doing all kinds of new and innovative things, we hear that the left wing of the Boeotian army at Leuktra was fifty men deep.

常见的方阵有八行,然而四世纪时,人们进行了一系列的革新,听说在洛伊克特拉城皮奥夏人的军队,左翼纵深五十排

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