In the last sentence of this chapter I have adopted the reading of Sintenis (φυλαττομένης), which is necessary for the sense.
[124] Alluding to the fight of Herakles with the Lernæan hydra which had nine heads. Herakles struck off its heads with his club, but in the place of the head he cut off, two new heads grew forth each time.
[125] This was a frontier town, whose possession was disputed by the Athenians and Bœotians.
[126] An Athenian of the township of Thriasia, near Eleusis.
[127] A fellow-scholar of Demosthenes.
[128] A low quarter of Athens.
[129] See Life of Crassus, ch. 2.
[130] The battle of Chæronea, B.C. 338, in which Philip defeated the Athenians and Bœotians, and crushed the liberties of Greece.
[131] The hero of a mock-heroic poem supposed to have been written by Homer.
[132] Kassander built a new city on the site of Potidæa, on the narrow isthmus of the promontory of Pallene. Potidæa had been destroyed by Philip, B.C. 356. The new city of Kassandrea soon became the most flourishing city in Macedonia.