223) erroneously attributes the assassination of Cimon to Pisistratus himself.
[246] Suidas.

Laertius iv., 13, etc.

Others, as Ammonius and Simplicius ad Aristotelem, derive the name of Cynics given to these philosophers from the ridicule attached to their manners.
[247] Whose ardour appears to have been soon damped.

They lost but forty men, and then retired at once to Thessaly.

This reminds us of the wars between the Italian republics, in which the loss of a single horseman was considered no trifling misfortune.