διῳκίσθημεν
κτλ. This is apparently a reference—in spite
of the audacious anachronism (cp. Introd. § VIII.), to the
διοικισμός of Mantinea in 385 B.C.,
for which see Xen. Hell. v. 2. 1 ff. ἐκ δὲ
τούτου καθῃρέθη μὲν τὸ τεῖχος, διῳκίσθη δὲ ἡ Μαντινεία τετραχῆ καθάπερ
τὸ ἀρχαῖον ᾤκουν (i.e. κατὰ
κώμας): Isocr. Pan. 67 A: Arist.
Pol. II. 2, § 3.
καταγραφὴν. Many editors divide the word
κατὰ γραφήν. Probably whichever reading we adopt
the meaning is the same, “in profile,” the figures being
bas-reliefs (crusta). Cp. Plin. XXXV. 34 hic catagrapha
invenit, hoc est obliquas imagines.
ὥσπερ λίσπαι. These are διαπεπρισμένοι ἀστράγαλοι (Schol. ad
loc., Suidas), like the σύμβολον of 191 D: cp. Ar. Ran. 826, Schol. ad Eur.
Med. 610.
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