[Footnote 180:  Nothing is known of this tribe.  There is a city, Tralles, in Asia Minor, which Clough conjectures may possibly have been connected with them.  Liddell and Scott speak of “Trallians” as “Thracian barbarians employed in Asia as mercenaries, torturers, and executioners.”]

[Footnote 181:  The people living about Pharsalia.]

[Footnote 182:  Mora, a Spartan regiment of infantry.  The number of men in each varied from 400 to 900, according as the men above 45, 50, &c., years were called out.]

[Footnote 183:  The most aristocratic city in Boeotia, now allied with the Spartans.  During the Theban supremacy it was utterly destroyed.]

[Footnote 184:  That is, the aristocratic or pro-Laconian party, who had been driven out by the other side.]

[Footnote 185:  To Medise was a phrase originally used during the great Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes, B.C. 480, when those Greek cities who sided with the Persians, were said to Medise, that is, to take the side of the Medes.  See Life of Artaxerxes, vol. iv. ch. 22, and Grote’s ‘History of Greece,’ part ii. ch. lxxvi.]

[Footnote 186:  See ante, ch. xiii., note.]

[Footnote 187:  This name is spelt Leontiades by most writers.]

[Footnote 188:  I extract the following note from Grote’s ’History of Greece.’  “Plutarch gives this interchange of brief questions, between Agesilaus and Epameinondas, which is in substance the same as that given by Pausanias, and has every appearance of being true.  But he introduces it in a very bold and abrupt way, such as cannot be conformable to the reality.  To raise a question about the right of Sparta to govern Laconia was a most daring novelty.  A courageous and patriotic Theban might venture upon it as a retort against those Spartans who questioned the right of Thebes to her presidency of Boeotia; but he would never do so without assigning his reasons to justify an assertion so startling to a large portion of his hearers.  The reasons which I here ascribe to Epameinondas are such as we know to have formed the Theban creed, in reference to the Boeotian cities; such as were actually urged by the Theban orator in 427 B.C., when the fate of the Plataean captives was under discussion.  After Epameinondas had once laid out the reasons in support of his assertion, he might then, if the same brief question were angrily put to him a second time, meet it with another equally brief counter-question or retort.  It is this final interchange of thrusts which Plutarch has given, omitting the arguments previously stated by Epameinondas, and necessary to warrant the seeming paradox which he advances.  We must recollect that Epameinondas does not contend that Thebes was entitled to as much power in Boeotia as Sparta in Laconia.  He only contends that Boeotia, under the presidency of Thebes, was as much an integral political aggregate, as Laconia under Sparta—­in reference to the Grecian world.”—­Grote’s ‘History of Greece,’ part ii. ch. lxvii.]