[207] Thucydides VIII. 65, the last sentence. My small addition to the words of this sentence seems to be justified by ἐυπρεπὲς πρὸς τοὺς πλείους which occurs in the next.
[208] The oligarchical government lasted four months and ended two months after new archons took office, that is to say, two months after midsummer. Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 33. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, vol. II. pp. XV. XVI.
[209] Thucydides VIII. 67. Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 29.
[210] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 29. Thucydides VIII. 67.
[211] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 31.
[212] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 31, 32.
[213] Thucydides VIII. 70.
[214] Thucydides VIII. 89.
[215] Thucydides VIII. 90-97.
[216] Thucydides VIII. 97. 1. The meaning of the words is admirably explained by Grote in a note to chapter LXII. of his History of Greece.