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[2] When the common council of the Boeotians convened and the envoys had explained the matters on which they had been instructed, the Boeotians concurred with the Thessalians in every matter, gave Pelopidas seven thousand men and ordered him speedily to assist as requested; but as Pelopidas was hastening to leave with his army,1 the sun, as it happened, was eclipsed.2

1 According to Plutarch, Pelopidas left his army because of the eclipse and took command of the Thessalian League.

2 13 July 364.

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