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[ The best MSS. give this form throughout, which is also used by Æschylus: cp. iii. 70, note 60.]
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[ {ekakothesan}.]
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[ {toutou}: it is doubtful whether this means his power or his death. Perhaps something has dropped out after {teleuta}.]
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[ {anesis}: a conjectural emendation of {aneos}. (Perhaps however, the word was rather {ananeosis}, "after a short time there was a renewal of evils"). Grote wishes to translate this clause, "after a short time there was an abatement of evils," being of opinion that the {anesis kakon} lasted about eight years. However the expression {ou pollon khronon} is so loose that it might well cover the required period of time.]
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[ {praskhema}.]