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The appeal is neither to <*>ing (as in iii. 148. 1) nor to ‘the authorities’ (ἄρχοντες, iii. 46. 1 m.), but to the whole people; this detail alone proves the story <*>ical; it is an invention to show the contrast between Ionic <*> and Spartan simplicity.

Xenophanes (Fr. 3) attacks the <*>ναλουργέα φάρεα of his countrymen, the Colophonians, <*> δὲ μαθόντες ἀνωφελέας παρὰ Λυδῶν. For the Spartan constitution and policy in the sixth century cf. App. XVII. For Lacedaemomian headship cf. 69. 2 n.

Φωκαιέα: for this leadership cf. 141. 4 n., and position of Dionysius at Lade (vi. 11).

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