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[ {pantes}: some MSS. have {plegentes}, which is adopted by most Editors, "smitten by bribes.">[
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[ {dethen}, with ironical sense.]
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[ {mede purphoron}: the {purphoros} had charge of the fire brought for sacrifices from the altar of Zeus Agetor at Sparta, and ordinarily his person would be regarded as sacred; hence the proverb {oude purphoros esothe}, used of an utter defeat.]
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[ {tou diekploou}.]
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[ {kata stoma}.]