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这个重要的实例表明了庇西特拉图建党的方式。两个较老的党派大概有一个相似的地方和个人的组织机构，他们可能为了原则问题而分裂，一派主张维护而了另一派则抵制梭伦改革带来的利益。但是，他们的这种意图，与其说得到了两派名人的支持，不如说得到了阿尔克迈翁族的知名人物和墨伽克勒斯的行动的支持。吕库古可能属于较老的贵族。
I believe that the paragraphe has not been fully understood.
This paragraph tends to give an authorial conjecture to "the way in which P's party was built up". "This view of them", namely, not "their intentions" as understood by the translator but "this conjecture of how P's party was built up", finds its supportive arguments (×) not in (1) the names of the parties (i.e., Party of the Plain and of the Coast, and certainly not "notables of both parties"), which has been dealt with in the beginning of the chapter, (√) but in (2) the following elements: <a> Alcmaeonidae's character (disposition, ethos, not "notable persons"), <b> actions of Megacles, <c> the possible fact that Lycurgus belongs to the older nobility.