Leuctra

, a village of Bœotia, between Platæa and Thespia, famous for the victory which Epa min on das the Theban general obtained over the superior force of Cleombrotus king of Sparta, on the 8th of July, B.C. 371. In this famous battle 4000 Spartans were killed with their king Cleombrotus, and no more than 300 The bans. From that time the Spartans lost the empire of Greece, which they had obtained for nearly 500 years. Plutarch , Pelopidas & Agesilaus .— Cornel i us Nepos , Epa min on das .— Justin , bk. 6 , ch. 6 .— Xenophon , Hellenica .— Diodorus , bk. 15 .— Pausanias , Laconia .— Cicero , de Officiis , bk. 1 , ch. 18 ; Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 1 , ch. 46 ; Letters to Atticus , bk. 6 , ltr. 1 .— Strabo , bk. 9 .