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LXSCRIPTIONS Ixxxiii expedition. Nothing is said about it in viii. 15. And it is quite distinct from the provision respecting the 1,000 talents. The conjectural restoration, as will be seen by the letters, is of the most doubtful kind. Again, the words utto Trpv Taviiai in 1. 11 (A) have been thought to show that the accounts of sums paid out at the end of 01. 92. i are dated 'from a (previous) prytany,' not 'in a pr3'tan3',' utto Trpi-Tai-ctu?, not eVl rvys (say OlmflSo^) TrpiTttveias. And here a trace has been found of the government of the 400, b.c. 411; for after the expulsion of the senate of 500 there would be no regular prytanies. But the words are too imperfect to allow any inference to be drawn from them. [A much more certain trace of the rule of the 400 is to be found in a few words inscribed on a vacant side of the stone containing C. I. A. 179 a-d (Suppl. iii. p. 162, cor- rected by Lolling with the help of a new fragment). The rest of the inscription belongs to 432-1 — 426 (p. Ixxx, above). The words in question record a payment of 77-78 talents at the end of Hecatombaeon, in the archonship of some one whose name ended in -xo? : and instead of the usual ij/ri(fit(jafia'Ov tov Syixov we have i/';;<^t]o-a/x£vr/5 t^s ^oi'Af/s. The only ordinary archon during the war whose name ended in -xos was Isarchos (424-423). But the character of the writing is later than this date, and the names of the financial officers enable us to date the words in 411-10. Now the regular archon of this ytar was Theopompus. But in Hecatombaeon the 400 were still in power: and [Aristotle] Athen. Polit. 33 tells us that Mmo-i/iuxos (so the MS., probably Mv/?o-i'Aox"?). o"e of the 400, was archon for the first two months of the year and Theopompus for the rest. There is thus no doubt about the date of the words, which must have been inscribed on a monument already partly filled up. The ftovX-,i means of course the 400 themselves.] (6) C. I. A. 188, 189 is an inscription of which the first part is very complete, and contains the accounts of 01. 92. 3,