See Lieut.-Col. Leake's 'Topography of Athens,' sect. iv.]
[Footnote 633: The original is [Greek: apobates], which corresponds to
the Latin desultor, meaning one who rode several horses, leaping from
one to the other.]
[Footnote 634: Plutarch's narrative here is misleading, as it seems to
imply that Harpalus gave this money to Charikles _after_ his arrival
in Athens. We know from Theopompus (Fr. 277) that the monument had
been finished some time before Harpalus quitted Asia. Plutarch treats
it as a mean structure, unworthy of the sum expended on it; but both
Dikaearchus and Pausanias describe it as stately and magnificent.
Grote's 'History of Greece,' Part II. ch. xcv., note.]
[Footnote 635: See Life of Demosthenes, ch. xxv.; and Grote, Hist. of
Greece, Part II., ch. xcv.]
[Footnote 636: The Lamian war, so called from the siege of Lamia, in
which Leosthenes perished.]
[Footnote 637: [Greek: Hebe], the word here used, means the time just
before manhood, from about fourteen to twenty years of age; at Sparta
it was fixed at eighteen, so that of [Greek: hoi deka aph' hebes] '
were men of twenty-eight, [Greek: hoi tettarakonta aph' hebes] ' men
of fifty-eight, &c. Xen. Hell. 3. 4, 23. Liddell and Scott. Here,
therefore, [Greek: hoi achri heksekonta aph' hebes] ' must mean all
citizens under about seventy-five years of age.]
[Footnote 638: Rhamnus was a demus of Attica, situated on a small
rocky peninsula on the east coast of Attica, sixty stadia from
Marathon.
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