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FOOTNOTES:
[1] This expression of Herodotus, that the Thracians themselves made Miltiades tyrant (κατεστήσαντο τύραννον), illustrates the meaning of the word: they invested him not with the power of oppressing them at pleasure, but with a form of authority for which the Grecian constitutions offered no precedent.
[2] Southey’s Chronicle of the Cid, Book I. iv.
[3] See Mitford, chap. vii. 4.
[4] The polemarch was the third in rank of the Archons, and was at the head of the military administration.