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 34 HISTORY OF GREECE. democracies in those allied cities where they existed, and estal> lishing oligarchies in their room. Peisander made this change at Tenos, Andros, Karystus, JEgina, and elsewhere ; collecting from these several places a regiment of three hundred hoplites, which he brought with him to Athens as a sort of body-guard to his new oligarchy. 1 He could not know until he reached Peiraeus the full success of the terrorism organized by Antiphon and the rest ; so that he probably came prepared to surmount a greater resist- ance than he actually found. As the facts stood, so completely had the public opinion and spirit been subdued, that he was enabled to put the finishing stroke at once, and his arrival was the signal for consummating the revolution, first, by an extorted suspension of the tutelary constitutional sanction, next, by the more direct employment of armed force. First, he convoked a public assembly, in which he proposed a decree, naming ten commissioners with full powers, to prepare propositions for such political reform as they should think advisa- ble, and to be ready by a given day. 2 According to the usual 1 Thucyd. viii, 65. Ol 6e ufj.l rbv Hsiaavdpov vrapaTr/leovref re, uarrep idedoKro, r o t) f 6 TJ [i o v f kv ralf xo'h.EGi KareTlvov, nal uua ear iv a(f>' uv x u p' LUV Ka ^ hMttf e^ovrec afyiaLv avToif l-vfifiaxovf rjl.&ov eg ruf 'A#i/vaf. Keu /caraAa/z/3ai>ovcrt rd. Trfaiora rolf kralpois irpompyaff- fieva. We may gather from c. 69 that the places which I have named in the text were among those visited by Peisander : all of them lay very much in his way from Samos to Athens. deica uvSpaf i^ecr&ai t;vyypaEaf avr o Kparopaf, TOVTOV; de ^vyypa- ef rbv Sfj^ov ig 7]{ii-pav PTJTTJV, ai?' on upiara r In spite of certain passages found in Suidas and Harpokration (see K. F. Hermann, Lehrbuch der Griechischen Staats Alterthumer, sect. 1 67. note 12 : compare also "Wattenbach, De Quadringentor. Factione, p. 38), I can- not think that there was any connection between these ten t-vyypaei(, and the Board of irpofiov'hoi mentioned as having been before named (Thucyd. viii, 1 ). Nor has the passage in Lysias, to which Hermann makes allusion, anything to do with these gvyypaQdf. The mention of Thirty persons by Androtion and Philochorus, seems to imply that they, or Harpokration, confounded the proceedings ushering in this oligarchy of Four Hundred; with those before the subsequent oligarchy of Thirty. The avvedpoi, or avyypaipele, mentioned by Isokrates (Areopagit. Or. vii, sect. 67) mig'ht refei either to the case ->f the Four Hundred or to that of the Thirty.
 * Thucyd. viii, 67. Kat irpurov filv rdv <%*ov fu/l/lefavrEf EITTOV yvupriv,