[Footnote 1: Kallikratidas, the Lacedæmonian admiral, was defeated and
slain by the Athenians at the battle of Arginusæ, B.C. 406.]
[Footnote 2: No one seems able to identify this battle. See Grote's
History, Part II., ch. lxxvii., note, s.v. Epameinondas.]
[Footnote 3: See Life of Titus Flamininus, p. 175, note.]
[Footnote 4: More usually spelt 'Leontiades.']
[Footnote 5: Kadmeia, the Acropolis of Thebes, a fortress on a lofty
rock overhanging the town.]
[Footnote 6: In Attica.]
[Footnote 7: The chief priest who presided at the Eleusinian
mysteries.]
[Footnote 8: The office of Bœotarch is described at length in Smith's
'Dictionary of Antiquities.' They seem properly to have been the
military leaders of the confederacy of the whole of the cities of
Bœotia.]
[Footnote 9: This was the case in all Greek towns, namely, there were
two parties, aristocratic and democratic. The democracy being now in
the ascendant in Thebes, the party which favoured the Spartans, the
most aristocratic state in Greece, had gone into exile.]
[Footnote 10: For the number of men in a "mora," see p. 16.]
[Footnote 11: See vol. i. Life of Lykurgus, ch. vi.]