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αὐτός, ‘alone.’ But cf. Ath. Pol. 20. 3 “ὑπεξελθόντος δὲ τοῦ Κλεισθένους μετ᾽ ὀλίγων”. ὑπεξέσχε, ‘retired’ (vi. 74. 1; viii. 132. 2). He hoped by this to satisfy Cleomenes. ἐπίστια. It is most unlikely that 700 families were implicated in the murder of the Cylonians, yet Aristotle follows H. verbally. Probably many newly enfranchised citizens were expelled at the same time, and thus completed the total of 700 households. τὴν βουλήν. Clearly to Herodotus the new Boule of five hundred, fifty from each tribe, which naturally championed democracy against this oligarchic reaction; yet, if we follow the chronology of Aristotle (cf. ch. 70. 1 n.), it would be the Solonian council of four hundred. Were the three hundred partisans of Isagoras to form an oligarchic council, from which the magistrates would be taken? There had been a council of three hundred convened to try the ‘Accursed’ (Plut. Sol. 12).
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