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The full genealogy is given as a mark of the honour; so of Leotychides (viii. 131), Alexander of Macedon (viii. 139), and Pausanias (ix. 64), while that of Xerxes is introduced dramatically (ch. 11). For this ancient mark of honour cf. Homer, Il. x. 68πατρόθεν ἐκ γενεῆς ὀνομάζων ἄνδρα ἕκαστον”, and H. vi. 14. 3 n. For the genealogy cf. Paus. iii. 1-3, who for Eurycratides substitutes a second Eurycrates (iii. 3. 5). Eusebius (Chron. vol. i, pp. 221-5, ed. Schöne) extracts from Diodorus a dated list from Eurysthenes to Alcamenes, said to be due to Apollodorus.

Λεωνίδης. An Ionic form (cf. Ἀρχελέω, Ἡηγησιλέω, Λεωβωτέω, for the Doric Λανιδάς; Λᾶς = λαός or λεώς).

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