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ἀλλὰ γάρ introduces an objection met by μὲν ὦν, immo, ‘on the contrary’. H.'s assertion is discredited by the position held at the time by Miltiades, the head of the rival house of Philaids, by the ostracism of Megacles in 487 B. C., and by the ode of Pindar (Pyth. vii); cf. further App. XVIII, § 6.


ἀνεδέχθη. Delbrück (Perserkriege 60 f. and Wilamowitz, A. and A. ii. 85) consider the shield-signal an invention of the excited imagination of the returning Athenian hoplites, but it is one of the incidents most positively attested. Nor is it victorious but vanquished armies which imagine treason in this way. For a better explanation cf. App. XVIII, § 8.

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