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αὐτίκα μετὰ ταῦτα. H. uses a standing formula (viii. 108. 1; ix. 93. 3 n.) intended to emphasize the fact that the Mantineans and Eleans arrived from the Peloponnese just too late when all was over (ἐπ᾽ ἐξεργασμένοισι, cf. iv. 164. 3; viii. 94. 4). Probably the two states were infected with Medism, and waited for the issue of the battle of Plataea before joining the victors. The banishment of the generals perhaps indicates a democratic revolution against a ruling oligarchy (cf. ch. 10 n. and Munro, J. H. S. xxiv. 148).

ἄξιοι ... ζημιῶσαι, ‘deserved that men should punish them’; cf. iv. 42. 1.

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