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20. Κύλων ἦν—two scholia show that the following narrative was admired in antiquity for its clearness and smoothness; one says ‘The Lion laughed here.’
Ὀλυμπιονίκης—in 640 B.C. (see Sandys on Ath. Pol. init.).
21. τῶν πάλαι—part., ‘of his date’ (not, ‘of an ancient family’).
23. κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον—his expulsion is supposed to have occuried in 600 or 590 B.C.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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