See [Note 63] to the Choephoræ.

[ Footnote 18 ]

Attica.

[ Footnote 19 ]

θυμόμαντις.—See [Note 67] to Agamemnon.

[ Footnote 20 ]

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.

[ Footnote 21 ]

ἐπι σκηπτουχίᾳ ταχθεὶς. So the σκηπτουχοι βασιλεῖς of Homer.

[ Footnote 22 ]