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H., like the speaker, conceived of the earth as a flat surface under the solid canopy of heaven (cf. iv. 36). For marvels in nature cf. Archilochus, fr. 74; Eurip. Fr. 688; Virgil, Ecl. i. 60; Ovid, Trist. i. 8. 1 f.; and H. viii. 143. 2 n. A similar formula in treaties (Dion. Hal. vi. 95) was fraudulently misused (H. iv. 201. 2, 3).

ἰσοκρατίας: concrete = ‘republics,’ a word coined to avoid the use of ‘democracies’, which might be distasteful to the Spartans, the equivalent of the abstract term ἰσηγορίη (ch. 78) and the commoner ἰσονομίη (iii. 80. 6, 142. 3; v. 37. 2).

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