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Ixviii THUCYDIDES referred to, from the existence of ra/Aiat twv aXXwv ^ewv at the date of C. I. A. 194, he observes that the enumeration of their names there, though incomplete, cannot have con- tained less than seven or more than five names : whereas C. I. A. 32 provides for the appointment of Ta/Atat Tiiiv aXAwv diiov by lot in the same manner as the Ta/xLat t^? 'A6r]vaia<;, probably implying that their number was to be ten, one from each tribe. If the later date be right, the minute statement of the sums borrowed from each of some eighteen ' other deities ' — 80 drachmae at an interest of half an obol from Heracles iv Kwoadpyei, 2 drachmae i| obols from Athene iTrl UaXXaSio), at an interest which is lost, — repre- sents the carrying out of the instructions given to the Aoyto-rat in C. I. A. 32, and illustrates the difficulty of ' searching for and destroying ' the records of the debt (Beloch, I.e. p. 116)'.] The sum of 3,000 talents repaid to the Goddess is supposed by Kirchhoff to be part of the great Athenian treasure which at some time before the Peloponnesian War had amounted to 9,700 talents (Thuc. ii. 13 med.). 'From this had to be deducted a sum of 3,700 expended on various buildings, such as the Propylaea of the Acro- polis, and also on the siege of Potidaea.' Of the 6,000 talents which remained at the commencement of the war 1,000 were set apart as a reserve, and not touched until after the failure of the Syracusan expedition in 413. The remaining 5,000 might be used in the service of the state. Now in Thucydides, iii. 19, three and a half years after the commencement of the war, towards the end of 428B.C., the Athenians are said to have sent out twelve ships to collect tribute among their allies in Lyciaand Caria ; at the same time, or rather sooner, they imposed upon themselves a property tax of 200 talents. The two measures, accord- ' Frazer, Pausanias, vol. ii. p. 561, accepts the earlier date. 435, partly because, the Parthenon being practically completed about the time, regula- tions for the storage of the treasure in the 6iria965onoi would be necessary.