ch. lxxiii.]
[Footnote 180: Nothing is known of this tribe. There is a city,
Tralles, in Asia Minor, which Clough conjectures may possibly have
been connected with them. Liddell and Scott speak of "Trallians" as
"Thracian barbarians employed in Asia as mercenaries, torturers, and
executioners."]
[Footnote 181: The people living about Pharsalia.]
[Footnote 182: Mora, a Spartan regiment of infantry. The number of men
in each varied from 400 to 900, according as the men above 45, 50,
&c., years were called out.]
[Footnote 183: The most aristocratic city in Boeotia, now allied with
the Spartans. During the Theban supremacy it was utterly destroyed.]
[Footnote 184: That is, the aristocratic or pro-Laconian party, who
had been driven out by the other side.]
[Footnote 185: To Medise was a phrase originally used during the great
Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes, B.C. 480, when those Greek
cities who sided with the Persians, were said to Medise, that is, to
take the side of the Medes. See Life of Artaxerxes, vol. iv. ch. 22,
and Grote's 'History of Greece,' part ii. ch. lxxvi.]
[Footnote 186: See _ante_, ch. xiii., _note_.]
[Footnote 187: This name is spelt Leontiades by most writers.]
[Footnote 188: I extract the following note from Grote's 'History of
Greece.' "Plutarch gives this interchange of brief questions, between
Agesilaus and Epameinondas, which is in substance the same as that
given by Pausanias, and has every appearance of being true.
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