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τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Ἰώνων. This Pan-Ionic council is a revival of that at work fifty years before (i. 141). Its direction of affairs is implied in the brief deliberation of ch. 108. 2; cf. vi. 7. P. Gardner (J. H. S. xxxi. 151-60) sees in a set of electrum staters and similar silver coins a series issued by the league of revolted cities. There is some humour in the airs of superiority attributed to the Ionians. ‘To avoid facing the Persian infantry (cf. vi. 112) on the plea of discipline (cf. vi. 12), and to remind the men of Cyprus of their servitude to the Mede (cf. iv. 142), are malicious touches in H.'s Ionian portraiture’ (Macan). (See note, p. 415.)

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