Associations to the word «Plataea»

Dictionary definition

PLATAEA, noun. A former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC.
PLATAEA, noun. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats