[183] καὶ ἀρχὰς δὲ [και] (τὰς?) περὶ τὴν Χίον κατέστησε καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν τῇ πατρίδι πολίτειαν. Ps.-Plut., 837 B.
[184] However, if we pressed this passage, we must regard the journey with Timotheus as unhistorical. All the evidence is to be found in Blass, Att. Ber., vol. ii. pp. 16-17.
[185] Antid., §§ 159 sqq.
[186] de Comp. Verb., ch. xxiii.
[187] de Comp. Verb., ch. xxiii. He quotes Areop., §§ 1-5.
[188] Isocrates allows elisions of certain short vowels, but he is more sparing than most poets in the use of it. In the epideictic speeches the commonest elision is of enclitics or semi-enclitics (τε, δέ, etc.) and of personal pronouns. Crasis, except of καὶ ἄν is rare. In the forensic speeches (his early work) elision is much less restricted.
[189] Maxim. Planud. ad Hermog., v. 469.
[190] Vol. ii. p. 144.
[191] Rhet., Book III. 8. 4.
[192] Ibid.