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ADDENDA.
e: tos-outo So^nc tixovra." <rm fxvi cuv ictxou^ev&iv napaCWfOV Kttt Ipiyuvov to fxty, tv £t<pcivt»
vrcKiaic ay Kdt w' i\tt%tr<Tots o-vvigvtw 6f auTo;'- though at the same time it must be
confessed that the cases which came before this court, were not always unimportant:
as for example in trials for life and death. The last thing to observed is that the of-
fice of the Eleven seems to have been imitated among many nations in modern times :
thus we find the Quarantia at Venice, the Vaivodlar in Turkey, the Sheriffs in Eng-
land.
" Aufxt^x01 na(^ *ne 5ame offices in the An,u&c, took care of their revenues, out
of which they paid all the duties required of them," &.c. In illustration of this,
the following passage may be cited from Demosth. in Eub.did. 1318, "« Si Set mt
Xouc ivrcev uitrbuxru; Ti/mvaiv, x.a.1 6T6g* at tojv koivuv SiHgTr'tKitrxv, tyu> f/.iv a.v Sovkoi/ahv i/^ac
AKovav, im' arm t%u> tgu 7rg->-y(x.<tro; utg*»^io-Qi tclvt' e/veu." A person in debt is re-
presented by Aristophanes as dreading the ^Dftstg^ot:
" &a.nvil Ui cT/i^stg^oc tk ex. tooy crrgu/md.Tmv." Nub. V. 37.
Page 70. " NnuoQuhAKic " Cic. de l"gg- 3. 20. " L>-gum custodiam nullam kabemus,
itaque hafeges sunt q ias apparitores nostri volunt: a librartis p timus public ts tittens con-
signalam memoriam publica n nullam habernus Greed hoc dilig<ntius , apud quos
hSo/u^fuAaicts creanlur : nee hi solum litteras—nam id quidem etiam apud majores nos-
tros erat—sfd etiam facta hominum observabant ad legesque revocabllnt.'', The impor-
tance of the office, and its intimate connection with the very principles of the govern-
ment, will appear still more fully from the following passage of Xenophon, Oeconom.
9. 14. " EcT/JWltOV Si tVTMV, GTt Kit iy TJliC iUVGfX.GVfJI.iya.lC 7roKi?l\ guh XQX.uv SoKlt TO/C/TOXf.
<rm;, m ro/UGVi Kctxouc yga-^rnvrxt, zkko. x.tt VGtxGcpuKax.it 7rgoo-aLtgsW"rai, oitos? ini*x,o7rovv-
Tt; tqv fXiv TrGlouvra. to. vg/xiixx iTratvovcriv xv Si risTrag* Tout vg/xgu; irGin, fytxtGU/rt. No/uj-
(Tot/ GUV iX.ir.iU0V, i<p», TJlV yVVXIKa KO.I aVTHV VOfXG^Vhaxa TCeV iV TH CtKIO. itVUt. K. T. X- Which
passage has been paraphrased by Columella, R. R- 12, 3, 10. Aristotle is still more
explicit than Xenophon. " Tgtaev <T' outrw ag^cev. [xaS'J d; aipouvrat t<vic ap^ac ta.c
HVglGVi, VOfXG<pU>\XX.U:V, TTpcClVrXUV. 91 fXiV VGfXG<pUr\aXi( ttplQ'TGlcp i T/JCGV, OKiyctpllXOV J*' U
rrpoCovKoi, @ova>i £( f»fA.Grix.Gy.n Aristot. Polit. 6. 5. 13. The office of No^&pi x«f| ap-
pears to have existed in many of the Grecian states and cities, besides Athens, even
in the Greek cities of Asia, and to have been held usually for life, as appears from
the following inscription found on the site of Laodicea in Phrygia, and given by
Chandler in his Inscripp. Antiqq. Oxon. 1774. pag. 30, LXXVII.
ASHAATION . . . 0R . *IAON . . .
KAIA7AiaN02NOMO*TAAKAEniTAl2
EI2THNO ATPlAAETEPrESIAlS.
Page 80- " Public revenue." " The articles of the Athenian revenue are thus
enumerated by Aristophanes ExaiTOO-Tcif, TrpourcLyu* ixiT<tKK\ xyopxs, xi/uivu;t ,tt/cr8ouj,
k*1 Sttu.iGTrpti'vrt. Vesp. v. 657. The amount he reckons two thousand talents, about
£500,000 sterling. The 'EKstToo-ra*, hundredths, appear to have been the same tax
which Andocides calls fiftieths, a fiftieth, namely, of the value of ail goods imported,
and upon some exports. Perhaps it may have been doubled after the conclusion of
the Peloponnesian war to supply the deficiency of the public revenue arising from the
lo?« of dominion. For the other articles, the curious reader may consult the scho-
liast on Aristophanes, and Xenophon on Ae Athenian republic, 1. 16, 19." Mitford's
History of Greece, Vol. 5, p. 17. *
Page 76. " The institution of these Ivu/uopmi happened about the third year of the
100th Olympiad." Demosthenes, as we are informed by himself, served the office of
Tptipig-^oi when he was a young man, and before the institution of these <rufx,uopitti.
Now, as Demosthenes was born in the 3d year of the 99th Olympiad, Potter seem to
have assigned too early a date to this institution, vid. Demosth. in Mid. p. 564.
" Such as were unable to bear the expence of the xwvGvpytt assigned them, had
relief from the uvtiSgo-h, or exchange of goods". This exchange included even unsa-
tisfied claims, or, to use a legal phrase, choses in action; u 'flc y*e, (T/xac Totui-ac
2/aiaaov uiritvut jtotT' atiTov, avT/<fcir<v er''i/nt 7rxpi0-K.euiti7ety, tyct, u y.iy atVT/iTajnv, /un i^m
/UGi Trpoe auToi/f ttvrtS~tiiiiv.a>c m< tuv SiKcev rowrmv ton otVTfJovroc ytvoutvaiv a Si uhSiv tgv-
tuv iroiGinv, i»st tK fipct^tw ovtrtm KWTGupyw, Tra.via.7ris.a-ty etvaigiSum.'" Demosth. in
Aphob. II. p. 840.
** \Ggnyoi.1' The office of the ^op«^o< was termed Xopnyta.. The different X0?*}"1*
were assigned to the different tribes in their turns, and the esr/^exwra/of the tribe fixed
them before the Dionysia on some wealthy individuals. The different x°P»?6'' accord-
ADDENDA.
e: tos-outo So^nc tixovra." <rm fxvi cuv ictxou^ev&iv napaCWfOV Kttt Ipiyuvov to fxty, tv £t<pcivt»
vrcKiaic ay Kdt w' i\tt%tr<Tots o-vvigvtw 6f auTo;'- though at the same time it must be
confessed that the cases which came before this court, were not always unimportant:
as for example in trials for life and death. The last thing to observed is that the of-
fice of the Eleven seems to have been imitated among many nations in modern times :
thus we find the Quarantia at Venice, the Vaivodlar in Turkey, the Sheriffs in Eng-
land.
" Aufxt^x01 na(^ *ne 5ame offices in the An,u&c, took care of their revenues, out
of which they paid all the duties required of them," &.c. In illustration of this,
the following passage may be cited from Demosth. in Eub.did. 1318, "« Si Set mt
Xouc ivrcev uitrbuxru; Ti/mvaiv, x.a.1 6T6g* at tojv koivuv SiHgTr'tKitrxv, tyu> f/.iv a.v Sovkoi/ahv i/^ac
AKovav, im' arm t%u> tgu 7rg->-y(x.<tro; utg*»^io-Qi tclvt' e/veu." A person in debt is re-
presented by Aristophanes as dreading the ^Dftstg^ot:
" &a.nvil Ui cT/i^stg^oc tk ex. tooy crrgu/md.Tmv." Nub. V. 37.
Page 70. " NnuoQuhAKic " Cic. de l"gg- 3. 20. " L>-gum custodiam nullam kabemus,
itaque hafeges sunt q ias apparitores nostri volunt: a librartis p timus public ts tittens con-
signalam memoriam publica n nullam habernus Greed hoc dilig<ntius , apud quos
hSo/u^fuAaicts creanlur : nee hi solum litteras—nam id quidem etiam apud majores nos-
tros erat—sfd etiam facta hominum observabant ad legesque revocabllnt.'', The impor-
tance of the office, and its intimate connection with the very principles of the govern-
ment, will appear still more fully from the following passage of Xenophon, Oeconom.
9. 14. " EcT/JWltOV Si tVTMV, GTt Kit iy TJliC iUVGfX.GVfJI.iya.lC 7roKi?l\ guh XQX.uv SoKlt TO/C/TOXf.
<rm;, m ro/UGVi Kctxouc yga-^rnvrxt, zkko. x.tt VGtxGcpuKax.it 7rgoo-aLtgsW"rai, oitos? ini*x,o7rovv-
Tt; tqv fXiv TrGlouvra. to. vg/xiixx iTratvovcriv xv Si risTrag* Tout vg/xgu; irGin, fytxtGU/rt. No/uj-
(Tot/ GUV iX.ir.iU0V, i<p», TJlV yVVXIKa KO.I aVTHV VOfXG^Vhaxa TCeV iV TH CtKIO. itVUt. K. T. X- Which
passage has been paraphrased by Columella, R. R- 12, 3, 10. Aristotle is still more
explicit than Xenophon. " Tgtaev <T' outrw ag^cev. [xaS'J d; aipouvrat t<vic ap^ac ta.c
HVglGVi, VOfXG<pU>\XX.U:V, TTpcClVrXUV. 91 fXiV VGfXG<pUr\aXi( ttplQ'TGlcp i T/JCGV, OKiyctpllXOV J*' U
rrpoCovKoi, @ova>i £( f»fA.Grix.Gy.n Aristot. Polit. 6. 5. 13. The office of No^&pi x«f| ap-
pears to have existed in many of the Grecian states and cities, besides Athens, even
in the Greek cities of Asia, and to have been held usually for life, as appears from
the following inscription found on the site of Laodicea in Phrygia, and given by
Chandler in his Inscripp. Antiqq. Oxon. 1774. pag. 30, LXXVII.
ASHAATION . . . 0R . *IAON . . .
KAIA7AiaN02NOMO*TAAKAEniTAl2
EI2THNO ATPlAAETEPrESIAlS.
Page 80- " Public revenue." " The articles of the Athenian revenue are thus
enumerated by Aristophanes ExaiTOO-Tcif, TrpourcLyu* ixiT<tKK\ xyopxs, xi/uivu;t ,tt/cr8ouj,
k*1 Sttu.iGTrpti'vrt. Vesp. v. 657. The amount he reckons two thousand talents, about
£500,000 sterling. The 'EKstToo-ra*, hundredths, appear to have been the same tax
which Andocides calls fiftieths, a fiftieth, namely, of the value of ail goods imported,
and upon some exports. Perhaps it may have been doubled after the conclusion of
the Peloponnesian war to supply the deficiency of the public revenue arising from the
lo?« of dominion. For the other articles, the curious reader may consult the scho-
liast on Aristophanes, and Xenophon on Ae Athenian republic, 1. 16, 19." Mitford's
History of Greece, Vol. 5, p. 17. *
Page 76. " The institution of these Ivu/uopmi happened about the third year of the
100th Olympiad." Demosthenes, as we are informed by himself, served the office of
Tptipig-^oi when he was a young man, and before the institution of these <rufx,uopitti.
Now, as Demosthenes was born in the 3d year of the 99th Olympiad, Potter seem to
have assigned too early a date to this institution, vid. Demosth. in Mid. p. 564.
" Such as were unable to bear the expence of the xwvGvpytt assigned them, had
relief from the uvtiSgo-h, or exchange of goods". This exchange included even unsa-
tisfied claims, or, to use a legal phrase, choses in action; u 'flc y*e, (T/xac Totui-ac
2/aiaaov uiritvut jtotT' atiTov, avT/<fcir<v er''i/nt 7rxpi0-K.euiti7ety, tyct, u y.iy atVT/iTajnv, /un i^m
/UGi Trpoe auToi/f ttvrtS~tiiiiv.a>c m< tuv SiKcev rowrmv ton otVTfJovroc ytvoutvaiv a Si uhSiv tgv-
tuv iroiGinv, i»st tK fipct^tw ovtrtm KWTGupyw, Tra.via.7ris.a-ty etvaigiSum.'" Demosth. in
Aphob. II. p. 840.
** \Ggnyoi.1' The office of the ^op«^o< was termed Xopnyta.. The different X0?*}"1*
were assigned to the different tribes in their turns, and the esr/^exwra/of the tribe fixed
them before the Dionysia on some wealthy individuals. The different x°P»?6'' accord-