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NOTES. 155its local cult. diroXfCirwv — joined to preceding plaral, andmight have been dToXeiirovres. Cf. c. 66, 10.— 17, 1. 'Yiriipxov 'had homes ready to receive them.' Itappears that the whole of the country population was opposedto war. The rich landed gentry had town houses, but rarelylived in them and felt the loss of their fine country places.Cf. c. 65 ; Isocr. vii. 52. The farmers and peasants wereruined by the invasion. Cf. [Lys.] 20. 33. 'EXrwnvfowat the foot of the Acropolis, at the N.E. It was regarded withgreat awe, and even in the time of Pansanias some mysterioussanctity belonged to it. The Boule sat there the day after theEleusinian Festival ended. rh ncXop-yiK^v—(a) a fortificationbuilt by the ' Pelasgians on ' the W. side of the Acropolis,the only side accessible to an enemy ; (b) a space below thisfortification and also above it. It is to this space on eitherside that the curse attached. (On the orthography, Herodiansays, neXapryiKby am-l tov Ilf\affyiK&i>. Cf. Lobeck, Phryn. p.109. erdparov—what was the reason of this ? Only theW. side was ' cursed ' since only on that side could buildingsbe placed ; but this space was part of the pomoerium of theoriginal settlement, the Acropolis being then the rifuvm ofPelasgian Zeus. Hence no human beings were to live there.y.^—due to the prohibition implied in iTaparo*. toiovSc—i.e. fiT) oUelr aiV6, the relative construction disappearing.See c. 4. 5. ncXofyvK^v apyhv—such TapofOfiaaia iscommon in oracles. See c. 64, 2. dp^ivov—a favouriteword at Delphi, suiting well the oracle which worked bysuggestion rather than command. ((^tjOt)— 'was filledwith settlers.'— 17,2. ^vf^Tivai ' to have been fulfilled in a manner contraryto their expectations,' because the troubles were thecause instead of the result of the occupation. f\ irpocrcS^-XOVTo—Haase suggested ^ {3} rpoafdexovTo, but the relativemay be omitted. y^^*'^*^—^- ^okovoi from boKtl above.So'Burke, Reflections, In England we are said to learnmanners at second-hand from your side of the water, andthat we dress our behaviour in the frippery of France' («.«,it is said that we dress). irpanSa i.e. warned them thatthe place would some day be inhabited in time of adversity,ji^ «r' d-yaOu—after oiSa the regular n^ative is 01. This fi^iimplies a sense of authoritative decuiration in o75a, andis not a colloquial license. J/. T. 688. fir) belongs tod7a^(p.17, 3. KaT«nc€vd(ravTo—' found quarters.*