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[2] it was voted by the people to choose thirty men to frame the ancient laws¹ into a constitution under which to conduct the government. And the following men were chosen: Polychares, Critias, Melobius, Hippolochus, Eucleides, Hieron, Mnesilochus, Chremon, Theramenes, Aresias, Diocles, Phaedrias, Chaereleos, Anaetius, Peison, Sophocles, Eratosthenes, Charicles, Onomacles,² Theognis, Aeschines, Theogenes, Cleomedes, Erasistratus, Pheidon, Dracontides, Eumathes, Aristoteles, Hippomachus, Mnesitheides.

1 i.e., those of Cleisthenes and Solon, as contrasted with the radical, extreme democracy of more recent times. Cp. Aristot. Const. Ath. 29.17

2 404 B.C.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 1 and 2. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. vol. 1:1918; vol. 2: 1921.

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- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.20
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- Smith's Bio, Hippo'lochus
- Smith's Bio, Melo'bius
- Smith's Bio, Mnesi'lochus
- Smith's Bio, Onomacles
- Smith's Bio, Phae'dimus
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