Note 105 — Chapter LXII · TWENTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR. — OLIGARCHY OF FOUR HUNDRED AT ATHENS. (continued 2)
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The words of Thucydidês (viii, 97), εἶναι δὲ αὐτῶν, ὁπόσοι καὶ ὅπλα παρέχονται, show that this body was not composed exclusively of those who furnished panoplies. It could never have been intended, for example, to exclude the hippeis, or knights.