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καταστάσει ‘this state of things’ (not in a political sense, ‘constitution’).

τοῖς ὀλίγῳ πρὸ ἡμῶν alluding to the reforms of Ephialtes about a century before (459 B.C.), by which the powers of the Areiopagus were restricted: see introd.

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