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IONIA. 37
" THAT HE BE CROWNED WITH A CROWN OF LAUREL ON ACCOUNT OF HIS
" DESERTS TOWARDS HIS FELLOW CITIZENS. THAT THE CONTRACTORS FOR THE
" THEATRE BE LIKEWISE CROWNED.
" ARISTOPHANES OF PIRAEUS,
" MELESIAS OF LAMPTRE,
" CENOPHON THE PIR^EAN,
11 ARETHUSION OF PELECE.
" UNDER THE ARCHONSHIP OF ARCHIPPUS, PHRYNIO BEING TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE.
" ON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS DO THE PEOPLE OF PIRAEUS LET OUT TO FARM
" THE LANDS ADJOINING TO THE SEA, THE SALT WORKS, THE THESEUM, AND THE
" REST OF THE SACRED INCLOSURES. THOSE WHO CONTRACT FOR ABOVE THE SUM
"OF TEN DRACHMAS SHALL MAKE A DEPOSIT IN PROPORTION; THOSE WITHIN
" TEN DRACHMAS SHALL FIND SECURITY FOR THE SUM.....ON THESE TERMS
" THEY SHALL HOLD THE LANDS FREE FROM TAX OR TRIBUTE--------------IF ANY
11 CONTRIBUTION SHOULD BE RAISED, THE REPUBLIC TO PAY IT OUT OF THE RENTS.
" THAT IT SHALL NOT BE LAWFUL TO CARRY AWAY THE SOIL OR THE TIMBER
" FROM THE THESEUM, OR FROM THE OTHER CONSECRATED GROUND. NEITHER
" SHALL WOOD OR OTHER MATERIALS BE REMOVED BY THOSE WHO FARM THE
" THESMOPHORIUM.........AS TO THE REST, THE PAYMENT OF THE FIRST
" HALF SHALL ACCORDING TO CUSTOM BE MADE IN THE MONTH HECATOMB^EON,
" THE REMAINDER IN THE POSIDEUM. THE CONTRACTORS SHALL OCCUPY WHAT
" IS ALLOWED TO BE BROKEN UP, AFTER THE FOLLOWING MANNER; FOR NINE
" YEARS AT THEIR PLEASURE; IN THE TENTH YEAR ONE HALF TO BE PLOUGHED
•' AND NO MORE; SO THAT THERE MAY REMAIN FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER, A
" SUFFICIENT QUANTITY FOR WORKING FROM THE SIXTEENTH OF THE MONTH
" ANTHESTERION. IF MORE THAN ONE HALF SHALL APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN BROKEN
" UP, THE OVERPLUS OF THE PRODUCE SHALL GO TO THE PEOPLE."
(Chandler, Ins. P. ii. p. 7 5.)
The regulations of the Greeks in these particulars will be farther illustrated, by the following
passage in the fifth book of the Expedition of Cyrus.
" From Trapezus the army marched in three days to Cerasus, remaining there ten days. On
reviewing their numbers, there were found eight thousand six hundred left of about ten thousand
men; the rest having perished, some by the enemy, some from the snows, some by sickness. In
this place the money arising from the sale of the captives, was divided into shares, a tenth having
been first set apart for Apollo, and the Ephesian Diana. The commanders took this in trust for
the deities; each his portion ; Neon of Asine receiving that of Cheirisophus. Xenophon, there-
fore, having put together what was consecrated to Apollo, placed it in the treasury belonging to
" THAT HE BE CROWNED WITH A CROWN OF LAUREL ON ACCOUNT OF HIS
" DESERTS TOWARDS HIS FELLOW CITIZENS. THAT THE CONTRACTORS FOR THE
" THEATRE BE LIKEWISE CROWNED.
" ARISTOPHANES OF PIRAEUS,
" MELESIAS OF LAMPTRE,
" CENOPHON THE PIR^EAN,
11 ARETHUSION OF PELECE.
" UNDER THE ARCHONSHIP OF ARCHIPPUS, PHRYNIO BEING TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE.
" ON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS DO THE PEOPLE OF PIRAEUS LET OUT TO FARM
" THE LANDS ADJOINING TO THE SEA, THE SALT WORKS, THE THESEUM, AND THE
" REST OF THE SACRED INCLOSURES. THOSE WHO CONTRACT FOR ABOVE THE SUM
"OF TEN DRACHMAS SHALL MAKE A DEPOSIT IN PROPORTION; THOSE WITHIN
" TEN DRACHMAS SHALL FIND SECURITY FOR THE SUM.....ON THESE TERMS
" THEY SHALL HOLD THE LANDS FREE FROM TAX OR TRIBUTE--------------IF ANY
11 CONTRIBUTION SHOULD BE RAISED, THE REPUBLIC TO PAY IT OUT OF THE RENTS.
" THAT IT SHALL NOT BE LAWFUL TO CARRY AWAY THE SOIL OR THE TIMBER
" FROM THE THESEUM, OR FROM THE OTHER CONSECRATED GROUND. NEITHER
" SHALL WOOD OR OTHER MATERIALS BE REMOVED BY THOSE WHO FARM THE
" THESMOPHORIUM.........AS TO THE REST, THE PAYMENT OF THE FIRST
" HALF SHALL ACCORDING TO CUSTOM BE MADE IN THE MONTH HECATOMB^EON,
" THE REMAINDER IN THE POSIDEUM. THE CONTRACTORS SHALL OCCUPY WHAT
" IS ALLOWED TO BE BROKEN UP, AFTER THE FOLLOWING MANNER; FOR NINE
" YEARS AT THEIR PLEASURE; IN THE TENTH YEAR ONE HALF TO BE PLOUGHED
•' AND NO MORE; SO THAT THERE MAY REMAIN FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER, A
" SUFFICIENT QUANTITY FOR WORKING FROM THE SIXTEENTH OF THE MONTH
" ANTHESTERION. IF MORE THAN ONE HALF SHALL APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN BROKEN
" UP, THE OVERPLUS OF THE PRODUCE SHALL GO TO THE PEOPLE."
(Chandler, Ins. P. ii. p. 7 5.)
The regulations of the Greeks in these particulars will be farther illustrated, by the following
passage in the fifth book of the Expedition of Cyrus.
" From Trapezus the army marched in three days to Cerasus, remaining there ten days. On
reviewing their numbers, there were found eight thousand six hundred left of about ten thousand
men; the rest having perished, some by the enemy, some from the snows, some by sickness. In
this place the money arising from the sale of the captives, was divided into shares, a tenth having
been first set apart for Apollo, and the Ephesian Diana. The commanders took this in trust for
the deities; each his portion ; Neon of Asine receiving that of Cheirisophus. Xenophon, there-
fore, having put together what was consecrated to Apollo, placed it in the treasury belonging to