Chaeronea
A city of Boeotia celebrated for a great battle fought there in which the Athenians were defeated by the Boeotians, B. C. 447, and for the victory which Philip of Macedonia obtained there over the confederate armies of the Thebans and Athenians, B. C. 338. It was the birthplace of Plutarch.
Milton in one of his sonnets alludes to the place : "That dishonest victory, At Chaeronea fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent."
Isocrates is the old man eloquent thus alluded to.