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Aeschines, Speeches | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Demosthenes, Philippic 2, section 22 (search)
And what of the Thessalians? Do you
imagine,” I said, “that when he was expelling their despots,
or again when he was presenting them with Nicaea and Magnesia,
they ever dreamed that a Council of TenAccording to Dem. 9.26 Philip set up
>tetrarchies in Thessaly.
The two accounts may be reconciled by assuming that he retained the old
fourfold division of the country, but set up an oligarchy of ten in each
division. Philip, whose policy was to divide and conquer, would be unlikely
to centralize the government. It is just possible that dekadarxi/an may be a mistaken amplification of *d'arxi/an=tetrarxi/an, but in that case the singular would be strange.
Owing to the decarchies which Lysander imposed on so many free cities at the
end of the Peloponnesian war, the num