[17] Plato, Phaedrus.
[18] The Dorians of Boeotia and Peloponnesus were accounted the best infantry soldiers of Greece.
[19] Liv., xxii. 8, sq.
[20] μετοικικὁν.
[21] An office resembling that of a modern consul for a foreign nation.
[22] The ancient trireme was not habitable, like a modern ship of war. The crew always, if possible, landed for their meals, and when stationed at any place, drew the ship up on the beach and lived entirely on shore.
[23] The Greeks attached great importance to the burial of the dead. The usual test of which party had won a battle was, which side after it demanded a truce for the burial of the dead. Here the possession of the dead bodies of the enemy is enumerated as one of the proofs of victory.
[24] A "harmost," ἁρμοστες, was an officer sent from Sparta to administer a subject city. [See p. 97].
[25] Probably consisting of corn and cattle, as Clough translates it.
[26] Peltasts were light-armed troops, so called because they carried light round shields instead of the large unwieldy oblong shield of the Hoplite, or heavy-armed infantry soldier. These light troops came gradually into favour with the Greeks during the Peloponnesian war, and afterward became very extensively used.