[131] Of all the temples, those of Minerva and Jupiter were the most remarkable in the time of Pausanias. There were then two market-places. See Pausanias, lib. i., c. i. [132] Yet at this time the Amphictyonic Council was so feeble that, had the Spartans succeeded, they would have made but a hollow acquisition of authority; unless, indeed, with the project of gaining a majority of votes, they united another for reforming or reinvigorating the institution. [133] Thucyd., lib. i., c. 96. [134] Heeren, Pol. Hist. of Greece. [135] Corn. Nep. in vit. Paus. [136] Thucyd., lib. i., c. 129. [137] Plut. in vit. Arist. [138] Ibid. [139] Thucyd., lib. i. [140] Plut. in vit. Cimon. Before this period, Cimon, though rising into celebrity, could scarcely have been an adequate rival to Themistocles. [141] Corn. Nep. in vit. Cim. [142] According to Diodorus, Cimon early in life made a very wealthy marriage; Themistocles recommended him to a rich father-in-law, in a witticism, which, with a slight variation, Plutarch has also recorded, though he does not give its application to Cimon. [143] Corn. Nep. in vit. Cim. [144] Thucyd., lib. i. [145] Ibid., lib. i. Plut. in vit. Cim. Diod. Sic., lib. xi. [146] See Clinton, Fast. Hell., vol. ii., p. 34, in comment upon Bentley. [147] Athenaeus, lib. xii. [148] Plut. in vit. Them. [149] Plut. in vit. Aristid. [150] About twenty-three English acres. This was by no means a despicable estate in the confined soil of Attica. [151] Aristot. apud Plat. vit. Cim. [152] Produced equally by the anti-popular party on popular pretexts. It was under the sanction of Mr. Pitt that the prostitution of charity to the able-bodied was effected in England. [153] Plut. in vit. Cim. [154] His father's brother, Cleomenes, died raving mad, as we have already seen. There was therefore insanity in the family. [155] Plut. in vit. Cim. Pausanias, lib. iii., c. 17. [156] Pausarias, lib. iii., c. 17. [157] Phigalea, according to Pausanias. [158] Plut. in vit. Cim. [159] Thucyd., lib. i. [160] Plato, leg. vi. [161] Nep. in vit. Paus. [162] Pausanias observes that his renowned namesake was the only suppliant taking refuge at the sanctuary of Minerva Chalcioecus who did not obtain the divine protection, and this because he could never purify himself of the murder of Cleonice. [163] Thucyd., lib. i., 136. [164] Plut. in vit. Them. [165] Thucyd., lib. i., 137. [166] Mr. Mitford, while doubting the fact, attempts, with his usual disingenuousness, to raise upon the very fact that he doubts, reproaches against the horrors of democratical despotism. A strange practice for an historian to allow the premises to be false, and then to argue upon them as true!