[Footnote 220:  Teius is not a Roman name.  It is conjectured that it should be Ateius.]

[Footnote 221:  The road from Athens to Eleusis was called the Sacred (Pausanius, i. 36):  it led to the sacred city of Eleusis.  The space between the Peiraeic gate and the Sacred is that part of the wall which lay between the roads from Athens to the Piraeus and Eleusis respectively.]

[Footnote 222:  A Greek Agora corresponds to a Roman Forum.]

[Footnote 223:  The description of the capture of Athens is given by Appian. (Mithridatic War, c. 30.) Plutarch here alludes to the deluge in the time of Deucalion, which is often mentioned by the Greek and Roman writers.  In the time of Pausanias (i. 18), in the second century of our aera, they still showed at Athens the hole through which the waters of the deluge ran off.  A map of the Topography of Athens has been published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.  Leake’s Topography of Athens, K.O.  Mueller, in Ersch und Gruber, Encyclop. art.  “Attika,” p. 223, and P.W.  Forchhammer, Topographie von Athen, 1841, should be consulted.]

[Footnote 224:  See Strabo, p. 395.]

[Footnote 225:  One of the ports of the maritime town of Athens.  The events mentioned in this chapter should be compared with Appian (Mithridat.  War, c. 41).]

[Footnote 226:  His name was Lucius, and he was probably a brother of the great Hortensius.  L. Hortensius had to pass through a difficult country to reach Boeotia.  His route lay through the straits of Thermopylae; but he probably took some other line, and he was conducted by Kaphis over the heights of the great mountain mass of Parnassus.  Kaphis appears to be the person of the same name who has been mentioned before (c. 12), though he is there called a Phokian.  In this chapter Plutarch calls him a Chaeroneian.  Tithora or Tithorea was in the time of Herodotus (viii. 32) the name of that summit of Parnassus to which the Phokians of the neighbouring town of Neon fled from the soldiers of Xerxes B.C. 480.  Pausanias (x. 32) remarks that the city Neon must have taken the name of Tithorea after the time of Herodotus.  But Plutarch means to say that the Tithora of which he speaks was the place to which the Phokians fled; and therefore Neon, the place from which they fled, cannot be Tithora, according to Plutarch; and the description of Tithorea by Herodotus, though very brief, agrees with the description of Plutarch.  Pausanias places Tithorea eighty stadia from Delphi.]

[Footnote 227:  Elateia was an important position in Phokis and near the river Kephisus.  It was situated near the north-western extremity of the great Boeotian plain, and commanded the entrance into that plain from the mountainous country to the north-west.  The Kephisus takes a south-east course past Elateia, Panopeus, Chaeronea, and Orchomenus, and near Orchomenus it enters the Lake Kopais.  Boeotia is a high table-land surrounded by mountains, and all the drainage of the plain of which those of Elateia and Orchomenus are part is received in the basin of the lake, which has no outlet.]