Note 175 — Chapter I · Introduction
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On the way that Aristotle’s ideas often colour the facts he quotes see Muretus, Var. Lect. I. 14; Koehler, Sitzungsb. Preuss. Akad. 1892, p. 505; Endt, Wien. Stud. XXIV. (1901), pp. 50–51, quoted Porzio, Cipselidi, p. 244.
On the general dubiousness of fifth and fourth century explanations of seventh and sixth century motives, see Macan on the Athenaion Politeia in J.H.S. XII. pp. 34 f.