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κατεχόμενον καὶ δ. These words have been attacked as unfair; but it must be remembered that they are a description of Athens, as Croesus would hear of it circ. 550 B.C.; as such they are too compressed, but in the main accurate; Athens was ‘held down’ by P., and the fact that it was ‘torn asunder’ gave him his opportunity.

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