Now the gymnasia and common meals do a great deal of good, and yet they are a source of evil in civil troubles; as is shown in the case of the Milesian, and Boeotian, and Thurian youth, among whom these institutions seem always to have had a tendency to degrade the ancient and natural custom of love below the level, not only of man, but of the beasts.
Peneleos, Leitos, Arkesilaos, Prothoenor, and Klonios were leaders of the Boeotians.
From these, there came fifty ships, and in each, there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians.