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[ This, among a thousand anecdotes, proves how salutary and inevitable was the popular distrust of the aristocracy. When we read of the process of bribing the principal men, and of the conspiracy entered into by others, we must treat with contempt those accusations of the jealousy of the Grecian people towards their superiors which form the staple declamations of commonplace historians.
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[ Gargaphia is one mile and a half from the town of Plataea. Gell’s Itin. 112.
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[ Plut. in vit. Arist.
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[ A strange fall from the ancient splendour of Mycenae, to furnish only four hundred men, conjointly with Tiryns, to the cause of Greece!
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[ Her., lib. ix., c. 45.