See [Note 63] to the Choephoræ.
Attica.
θυμόμαντις.—See [Note 67] to Agamemnon.
The mines of Laurium, near the Sunian promontory. On their importance to the Athenians during this great struggle with Persia, see Grote, V. p. 71.
ἐπι σκηπτουχίᾳ ταχθεὶς. So the σκηπτουχοι βασιλεῖς of Homer.