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CHANGES AT ATHENS UNDER PERIKLES. 407 ment at Athens. Nor could it be deemed unreasonable to as- sign a regular pay to those who thus rendered regular service : it was, indeed, an essential item in the whole scheme i and pur- pose ; so that the suppression of the pay of itself seems to have suspended the dikasteries, while the oligarchy of Four Hundred was established, — and it can only be discussed in that light. As the fact stands, we may suppose that the six thousand heliasts who fiUed the dikasteries were composed of the middling and poorer citizens indiscriminately : though there was nothing to exclude the richer, if they chose to serve. ' Thucyd. viii, 67. Compare a curious passage, even in reference to the time of Demosthenes, in the speech of that orator contra Bceotum de Nomine, c. 5. koI el fiia^oc hiropiGdrj Tolg diKcuTTTipiocg, eiariyov av fte S^?.ov 6ri, etc