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Ivi'ii THUCYDIDES should successfully contest the Athenian assessment on different occasions. So that this circumstance points to some local reason for the special position of the TrdAeis ai'rai ^opov ra^d/jievai and TroAeis us ol iStwrat eviypaij/av ff)opov (jiipsiv. The former may have been, for reasons at which we can only guess, allowed to fix (nominally at least) their own assessment. Similarly, the iSiwrat may have been privatfe citizens of the states themselves ; though this is even more doubtful, for what status in such a matter could private citizens of other states than Athens have had ? See Frankel on Boeckh, Staatshaushaltung, vol. ii. p. 374 (616).] A considerable fragment of a decree respecting the tribute is contained in C. I. A. 38, but no connected mean- ing can be elicited from it. Certain cities seem to be spoken of as defaulters, to whom commissioners are sent to exact the tribute. The names of those who pay the tribute are to be written up on a tablet by the Helleno- tamiae, and something is granted or done to 'both the Samians and the Theraeans ' (cp. above, p. Iv). There follows a mention of iTrtfxeXrjTai, and of a general or generals. Any attempts made by citizens of the tributary states to evade the ' decree respecting the tribute ' may be prose- cuted before the lirifi^X-qTai ; the eVt/xeXT/Tat are to bring them before the dicastery, the cases being of a class which had to be tried within a month (e/A/A7jvot). If the accused are condemned, the dicastery is to impose a penalty. Something not very intelligible is said about the election of collectors of the tribute (eKXoycts). According to another fragment of the same inscription (see C. I. A. 38 a Suppl. i.) defaulters are to be written up. If an unjust accusation is brought, the accuser is to be fined. If no proper sum- mons has been given, the senate is to settle the matter (xAr/o-ets, [^K^rjTrip(.<;, cp. Aristoph. Av. 1422) : these ' sum- moners ' are also mentioned in the decree preceding the Tafis ffiopov, C. I. A. 37/. g. 1. 28). It is impossible to say whether the i/^ry^icr/Aa to toC <^6pov