At the Battle of Mantinea in 207 BC the Achaean phalanx was positioned with intervals between the companies with lighter troops.

At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.

At the seat of the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, Thebes was known in the Egyptian language from the end of the New Kingdom as niwt-imn, " The City of Amun.

At Thebes, Cadmus and Harmonia began a dynasty with a son Polydorus, and four daughters, Agave, Autonoë, Ino and Semele.

At the wedding, whether celebrated at Samothrace or at Thebes, all the gods were present ; Harmonia received as bridal gifts a peplos worked by Athena and a necklace made by Hephaestus.

At Thebes and Orchomenos, a festival called Homolôïa, which was celebrated in honour of Zeus, Demeter, Athena and Enyo, was said to have received the surname of Homoloïus from Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo.

At the funeral of their fathers, the sons of Seven Against Thebes ( Aegialeus, Alcmaeon, Amphilocus, Diomedes, Euryalus, Promachus, Sthenelus, Thersander ) met and vowed to vanquish Thebes one day.

At the same time, Pelopidas, an advocate of an aggressive policy against Sparta, had established himself as a major political leader in Thebes.

At the same time, however, Epaminondas managed through a series of diplomatic efforts to dismantle the Peloponnesian league: the remaining members of the league finally abandoned Sparta ( in 365 Corinth, Epidaurus, and Phlius made peace with Thebes and Argos ), and Messenia remained independent and firmly loyal to Thebes.

At this point the Theban left hit the Spartan right with the Sacred Band of Thebes led by Pelopidas at its head.

At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos ; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios.

At Thebes he formed part of a family triad with Mut as his mother and Amun his father.

At Thebes she wrote of being " called to God " while a week later near Cairo she wrote in her diary ( as distinct from her far longer letters that her elder sister Parthenope was to print after her return ): " God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good for him alone without reputation.

At a meeting of the Spartan assembly to discuss the course of action, only one Spartan, named Prothous, was against war with Thebes.

" At Thebes, both met Antipater, whose invasion of Attica was expected imminently.

At Thebes he views the shields of those who died at the Battle of Leuctra, the ruins of the house of Pindar, and the statues of Hesiod, Arion, Thamyris, and Orpheus in the grove of the Muses on Helicon, as well as the portraits of Corinna at Tanagra and of Polybius in the cities of Arcadia.

At the conference that resulted, the Spartans proposed a peace based on the independence of all states ; this was rejected by the allies, as Athens wished to hold the gains it had made in the Aegean, Thebes wished to keep its control over the Boeotian league, and Argos already had designs on assimilating Corinth into its state.

At Thebes, Herihor usurped royal power without actually deposing Ramesses, and he effectively became the defacto ruler of Upper Egypt because his authority superseded the king's.

At Cairo he gained the support of the Mamluk ruler, Ali Bey ; after visiting Thebes ( where he entered the tomb of Ramesses III, KV11 ) he crossed the desert to Kosseir, where he embarked in the dress of a Turkish sailor.

At Thebes, the power of the chief priests of Amun Ramessesnakht grew at the expense of Pharaoh despite the fact that Isis, Ramesses VI's daughter, was connected to the Amun priesthood " in her role as God's Wife of Amun or Divine Adoratice.

At Thebes Antiope now suffered from the persecution of Dirce, the wife of Lycus, but at last escaped towards Eleutherae, and there found shelter, unknowingly, in the house where her two sons were living as herdsmen.

At this time, Thebes controlled a majority of the votes in the council, and at the autumn meeting in 357 BC, the Thebans were able to have both the Phocians ( for the cultivation of the sacred land ) and the Spartans ( for occupying Thebes some 25 years previously ) denounced and fined.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

At first I thought he had missed.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At nightfall he had been able to sneak down a hillside and into the jungle, reeking of death.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

At the moment of crisis it had no more depth than an old school tie.

At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

At least I had been unable to lay hold on the experience of conversion.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

At 2130 hours they had passed through the barbed wire at the point of departure.

At State College, he had no time to walk among the violets on the water's edge.

At least the Union officer had been decent enough to provide a candle.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.