Note 345 — Chapter II · Athens
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Isoc. Antid. 232, “Cleisthenes, having been banished from the city by the tyrants, persuaded the Amphictyons to lend him some of the money of the god, and restored the democracy, and banished the tyrants”; Dem. Meid. 144 (561), “(the Alcmaeonids), they say ... having borrowed money from Delphi, freed the city and expelled the sons of Peisistratus.” Themistius, Orat. IV. 53a, gives the Alcmaeonidae as the contractors without any mention of means or motives. Hdt. II. 180, Strabo IX. 421, and Paus. X. 5. 13 mention the rebuilding of the temple without referring to the Alcmaeonidae.