[27] See the article "Comitia" in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities.
[28] τυραννος, here and elsewhere translated despot, means a man who had obtained irresponsible power by unconstitutional means.
[29] Compare Tacitus, "eo immitior quia toleraverat."
[30] Heavy armed foot-soldiers, carrying a spear and shield.
[31] From these words, Grote conjectures that Telekleides was also present at the death of Timophanes.
[32] Bema, the tribune from which the orators spoke.
[33] The shield of a General was habitually carried for him by an orderly.
[34] The natives of Southern Italy.
[35] About May.
[36] A line in the Medea of Euripides. The point of the joke depends on the punctuation, but cannot be kept in translation.