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οἱ ἄρχοντες, ‘authorities’ (cf. vi. 106 n.); i.e. the kings and senate as well as the ephors who, even in the sixth century, were beginning to usurp the control of foreign affairs (cf. ix. 7 for the first definite instance, in 479 B.C.). For the Spartan government and policy at this period cf. App. XVII.

ἐπιλεληθέναι. For this ‘laconic repartee’ in the original Doric cf. Plut. Moral. 232 D; on p. 223 he gives it to Cleomenes.

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