[47] The eighty–fourth chapter of the third book (which is contained in this paragraph) has recently been pronounced spurious by several distinguished critics. See the question discussed by Dr. Arnold, vol. i. p. 608.
[48] Thucyd. iii. 70, 85.
[49] b.c. 425.
[50] Φορμηδὸν, signifieth properly, after the manner that mats or hurdles are platted.
[51] Istone.
[52] Thucyd., iv. 46, 48.
[53] See vol. i. chap. v. p. 154.
[54] Arnold’s Thucydides, App. i. p. 633.
[55] For what little is known or supposed, see Muller’s History of the Doric Race, book iii. ch. ix. § 5; English Translation, vol. ii.: the best book of reference for all political information relative to the Dorian states.
[56] ἐτύγχανον δὲ καὶ δυνάμει αὐτῶν οἱ πλείους πρῶτοι ὔντες τῆς πόλεως, I. 55.