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[3] At that time1 the Thebans decided to take the field against Orchomenus for the following reasons. Certain refugees who wanted to change the constitution of Thebes to an aristocracy induced the knights of Orchomenus, three hundred in all, to join them in the attempt.

1 Diodorus' dating of the destruction of Orchomenus is established by the fact that Isocrates (Isoc. 6.27) does not know of the event. See Paus. 9.15.3; Dem. 20.109; Plut. Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus 1.

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