[176] Demades, according to Plutarch, by the dissoluteness of his life, and conduct in the administration, shipwrecked the Athenian republick. Plut. in Vit. Phocion, p. 741.
[177] Plut. Apotheg. p. 188.
[178] Plut. in Vit. Aristid. p. 320.
[179] Plut. in Vit. Demet. p. 893 ... 94 ... 900.
[180] Pausan, Grec. Descript. lib. 9. c. 5 p. 718. Edit. Ketchnii.
[181] Οὐ γάρ τι ἠδυνάμην ἐς αὐτοὺς παρευρεῖν, ἕπομαι τῷ μύθῳ. Id. Ibid.
[182] Ibid. p. 723
[183] Thebes was the capital of Bœotia.
[184] Bœotum in crasso jurares aere natum. Hor. epis. 1. lib. 2. lin. 244.
[185] Plut. in Vit. Pelopid. p. 287.