9. =Archons=. Rulers. =tettix=, the grasshopper, whose image
symbolized old age, and was worn by the senators of Athens. See the
myth of Tithonus and Tennyson's poem of that name.
13. =Persia= attempted a conquest of Athens in 490 B.C. and was
defeated by the Athenians in the famous battle of Marathon, under
Miltiades.
18. To bring earth and water to an invading enemy was a symbol of
submission.
19. =Eretria=. A city on the island of Eub[oe]a, twenty-nine miles
north of Athens.