Note 171 — Chapter II · PRIESTLY KINGS
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Xenophon, Repub. Lacedaem. 15, compare id. 13; Aristotle, Politics, iii. 14. 3, p. 1285 a 3 sqq. Argos was governed, at least nominally, by a king as late as the time of the great Persian war (Herodotus, vii. 149); and at Orchomenus, in the secluded highlands of Northern Arcadia, the kingly form of government persisted till towards the end of the fifth century B.C. (Plutarch, Parallela, 32). As to the kings of Thessaly in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., see F. Hiller von Gaertringen in Aus der Anomia (Berlin, 1890), pp. 1–16.