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δευτεραῖος. Isocrates (Panath. 24) makes the distance 1,200 stades = 150 miles. Pliny (vii. § 84) ‘cucurrisse MCLX (or, as quoted by Solinus, MCCXL) stadia ab Athenis Lacedaemonem biduo Philippidem’. Pliny adds other and even more astounding long distance runs.

τοὺς ἄρχοντας: cf. iii. 46, and App. XVII, § 2.

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