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αὐτή—i.e. without interference from the tyrants. τοῖς πρὶν κειμένοις—the Solonian constitution. The phrase ὁ ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίος, Golden Age, was applied to the period both of Pisistratus and of Hippias. What Thuc. says of the sons the Ath. Pol. says of the father, and of the sons συνέβη διαδεξαμένων τῶν υἱέων πολλῷ γενέσθαι τραχυτέραν τὴν άρχήν. ἀρχαῖς—especially the archons. Cf. Aristoph. Wasps 682 ἐν άρχαῖς εἶναι. Ἀθηναίοις—the dat. is frequent, and does not imply inferiority like the gen. It is official. τῶν δώδεκα θεῶν βωμόν—this altar stood in the new Agora, as instituted by the Pisistratids, who made the Cerameicus the centre of Athens instead of Cydathenaeon (S. of the Acropolis). The altar marked the completion of their changes (Curtius, Stadtgeschichte von Athen, pp. 79 f.). τὸν ἐν . . Πυθίου—‘in the precinct of the Pythian Apollo,’ i.e. the Pythium (close to the Olympieium), which was the work of the Pisistratids. As archou, Pisistratus celebrated the Thargelia in honour of Apollo.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 6. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909. Professional Data Entry.
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