[4] More usually spelt 'Leontiades.'
[5] Kadmeia, the Acropolis of Thebes, a fortress on a lofty rock overhanging the town.
[6] In Attica.
[7] The chief priest who presided at the Eleusinian mysteries.
[8] The office of Bœotarch is described at length in Smith's 'Dictionary of Antiquities.' They seem properly to have been the military leaders of the confederacy of the whole of the cities of Bœotia.
[9] This was the case in all Greek towns, namely, there were two parties, aristocratic and democratic. The democracy being now in the ascendant in Thebes, the party which favoured the Spartans, the most aristocratic state in Greece, had gone into exile.
[10] For the number of men in a "mora," see p. 16.
[11] See vol. i. Life of Lykurgus, ch. vi.