The value of the steed and the rank of the horseman (always above the vulgar) made the cavalry of Greece easily discouraged by what appears to us an inconsiderable slaughter.
[248] Aelian.

V.Hist.xiii., 24.
[249] Wachsm, l.i., p.273.

Others contend for a later date to this most important change; but, on the whole, it seems a necessary consequence of the innovations of Clisthenes, which were all modelled upon the one great system of breaking down the influence of the aristocracy.

In the speech of Otanes (Herod., lib.iii., c.

80), it is curious to observe how much the vote by lot was identified with a republican form of government.
[250] See Sharon Turner, vol.i., book i.
[251] Herod., b.i., c.