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For Trachis cf. vii. 176. 2 n., and for Anticyra vii. 198. 2 n.

κατῆρες, ‘fitted with oars’ (Plut. ἐνήρης), otherwise poetical.

παλήσειε, from πάλη, ‘wrestle,’ is here an euphemism for ‘if they were hard pressed’ (so πονοῦν, Thuc. v. 73).

Ἀβρώνιχος: he two years later went with Aristides and Themistocles to Sparta to negotiate the rebuilding of the walls of Athens (Thuc. i. 91).

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