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Xanthippus, father of Pericles (cf. ch. 131. 2). The enmity still existed in the next generation between Pericles and Cimon.

The charge was clearly ἀπατησέως τοῦ δήμου, a form of προδοσία. But treason was not exactly defined till the archonship of Euclides, 403 B. C. (Nepos, Milt. 7). Ephorus makes the treason consist in taking bribes from the Persian, for in his account there is no deceiving of the people.

The procedure was no doubt by εἰσαγγελία (ὑπὸ τὸν δῆμον) before the Assembly; cf. Plato, l. c.

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