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As Pisistratus died in 528-527, this third victory would fall in 524 B. C. (Olymp. 64).

πρυτανήιον. The Prytaneum stood later on the north-west of the Acropolis (Paus. i. 18. 3, with Frazer), and there seems no sufficient reason for the hypothesis (Curtius and Dörpfeld) of an earlier Prytaneum south of the Acropolis (E. A. Gardner, Athens, p. 126).

ὑπείσαντες. This is the only instance recorded in which the Athenian tyrants adopted Periander's policy (cf. v. 92 η I τοὺς ὑπερόχους . . . φονεύειν).

τέθαπται: cf. Marcellinus, vit. Thuc. 17 πρὸς γὰρ ταῖς Μελιτίσι πύλαις καλουμέναις ἐστὶν ἐν Κοίλῃ τὰ καλούμενα Κιμώνια μνήματα. The gate was between the long walls (Gardner, Athens, 65-6), probably in the hollow between the hill of the Nymphs and that of the Pnyx, where the city deme Melite adjoins the surburban Koile. The tombs would be on either side the way just outside (πρό) the gate.

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