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For Timagenidas cf. ch. 38, Attaginus, ch. 15. The constitution of Thebes is described by a Theban orator (Thuc. iii. 62) as having been at this time a dynastic oligarchy ἡμῖν γὰρ πόλις τότε ἐτύγχανεν οὔτε κατ᾽ ὀλιγαρχίαν ἰσόνομον πολιτεύουσα οὔτε κατὰ δημοκρατίαν . . . δυναστεία ὀλίγων ἀνδρῶν εἶχε τὰ πράγματα. Cf. also vii. 222 n.; Plut. Arist. ch. 18 (cf. inf.); Paus. ix. 6. 2.

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