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ἐπιβατεύων, ‘taking his stand upon.’ The word implies that the claim was unfounded; cf. iii. 63. 3, 67. 2, ix. 95, and vi. 61 n., and the Homeric use of ἐπιβαίνειν.

μάρτυρας. The trial must be placed in 491 B. C., when Demaratus had been king quite twenty years. The Ephors summoned must have been in extreme old age, if any survived.

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