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[2] These men with their factions fell to contending for power, Cleisthenes was getting the worst of it in this dispute and took the commons into his party.1 Presently he divided the Athenians into ten tribes instead of four as formerly. He called none after the names of the sons of Ion—Geleon, Aegicores, Argades, and Hoples—but invented for them names taken from other heroes, all native to the country except Aias. Him he added despite the fact that he was a stranger because he was a neighbor and an ally.

1 For a comprehension of the reform briefly recorded by Herodotus, readers are referred to Grote, ch. xxxi.

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