The band of lovers.

>It is stated that it [**The Sacred Band of Thebes**] was never beaten till the battle at Chaeronea: and when [Philip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Filip_II_Macedonia.jpg), after the fight, took a view of the slain, and came to the place where the three hundred that fought his phalanx lay dead together, he wondered, and understanding that it was the band of lovers, he shed tears and said, “Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything that was base.” _____________________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Pelopidas." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 396. Print. _____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Battle of Chaeronea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaeronea_(338_BC)) [Φίλιππος Β΄ ὁ Μακεδών (Philip II of Macedon)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon) [Ἱερὸς Λόχος (Sacred Band of Thebes)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes)