P. 3—“Hegemony,” he-gĕm´o-ny. Leadership. Formed from the Greek word for guide or leader.
P. 3—“Sparti,” spar´ti; the sown-men. The dragon from which these ancestors of the Theban patricians sprung guarded a well near the site of the Cadmeia. The men whom Cadmus had sent there to draw water had been killed by the monster, and in return Cadmus had slain it, sowing its teeth as Minerva advised. Fearing the armed men which sprang forth he caused a quarrel among them, in which all but five were slain.
P. 3—“Kadmus,” cad´mus. The mythical founder of Thebes, the son of a king of Phœnicia and the brother of Europa.
P. 3—“Simmias,” sim´mi-as. The two principal speakers, besides Socrates, in Plato’s “Phædon” are Simmias and his brother.
P. 3—“Tarentine,” ta-ren´tine; “Spin´tha-rus.”
P. 3—“Grote.” (1794-1871.) An English historian, famous chiefly for his History of Greece.
P. 4—“Lysis,” ly´sis. An eminent philosopher driven out of Italy about 510 B. C., during the persecution of the Pythagorean club. He spent the remainder of his life in Thebes, where he was held in the greatest honor.
P. 4—“Pythagorean Brotherhood,” pyth´a-gō´re-an. See p. 119, Vol. 1, Timayenis. As a political and social power the brotherhood died out before the death of Pythagoras, though the sect still lived and kept up their religious observances.
P. 5—“Polybius,” po-lyb´i-us. (204-122 B. C.) A Grecian historian.
P. 6—“Leuktra,” luke´tra; “Mantineia,” man´ti-nei´a; “Megalopolis,” meg=´=a-lop´o-lis; “Kleombrotus,” kle-om´bro-tus; “Agesilaus,” a-ges-i-la´us; “Kithæron,” ci-thæ´ron; “Naxos,” nax´os; “Chabrias,” cha´bri-as.
P. 7—“Timotheus,” ti-mo´the-us. The son of the famous general Conon.
P. 7—“Tegyra,” te-gy´ra; “Harmost,” har´most; “Orchomenus,” or-chom´e-nus; “Polemarch,” pōl´e-march.
P. 8—“Eurotas,” eu-ro´tas. The largest river of Laconia.
P. 9—“Zacynthus,” za-cyn´thus. Now Zante; called by Homer the “Woody Zacynthus.”
P. 9—“Korkyra,” cor-cy´ra. Now the island of Corfu, one of the Ionian islands belonging to the nomarchy Corfu of the kingdom of Greece.
P. 9—“Periplus,” pĕs. A rare word from the Greek, meaning to sail around a sea or coast.
P. 9—“Poseidon,” po-si´don. The Neptune of Roman mythology, the god of the sea.