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πέδας. No doubt the ‘temple of Athena Alea’ was the source of the story; Pausanias (viii. 47. 2) saw the fetters there in the second century A. D. For the ‘fetters’ as evidence of Lacedaemonian overconfidence cf. similar story of Armada (but see Froude, xii. 380). For this temple cf. H. ix. 70. 3; it was burned in 395 B.C. (Paus. viii. 45), but restored on a magnificent scale with sculptures by Scopas, Frazer, P. iv. 425-6. For the name ‘Alea’ cf. Farnell, C. G. S. i. 274.

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