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Ixxxiv THUCYDIDES 410-409, the year following that in which the history of Thucydides concludes. It illustrates the exhaustion of the Athenian finances after the Sicilian expedition and the troubles of the year 411 (cp. viii. 76, ol yc /xi/rc apyvpiov en €l)(ov TT^fXTTCLV, ciAA' avToX liropit,ovTo ol o-rpaTtoiTai). For the heading of the inscription referring to the payments of the whole year describes them as made ck twv eVerctW, none of them are made l^ Stv TrapeXdjSojxev irapa. Tuiv TrpoTepuiv Tajuwv. So that the money belonging to the sacred treasure must have been nearly or quite exhausted by the middle of 410. The sum expended in the year, of which the record is nearly complete, amounts to about 180 talents. On this fact Kirchhoff bases his estimate of the annual income of the sacred treasure at 200 talents There are a few other inscriptions relating to finance which stand in a more accidental relation to the narrative of Thucydides ; such as the fragments of the accounts drawn up by the overseers of the Propylaea while in pro- cess of erection (C. I. A. 314, 315 ; cp. Thuc. iii. 17), of the accounts of the officers who had charge of the sacred islands Delos and Rhenea, belonging to the Archonship of Crates and Apseudes, 434, 433 (C. I. A. 283 ; cp. iii. 104), and lastly the lists of confiscated property sold by the Poletae. Some fragments of these last (C. I. A. i. 274- 277 and iv. Suppl, i, ii, iii.) contain names of persons who, according to Andoc. de Myst., were punished by confisca- tion of their goods for the mutilation of the Hermae or the profanation of the mysteries^. ' [But the inference is unwarranted, for onJy 8-9 talents are actually said in the inscription to have come from the treasury of Athene : the rest comes from other unnamed sources, and is only paid out by the 'treasurers of Athene ' in the usual way as part of the public treasure (p. Ixxvii). See Beloch, Rhein. Mus. xxxix. p. 59.] ^ [One of these fragments (C. I. A. Suppl. iii. p. 178) mentions a ■XP-i'-tiiva TiapaKoWos (a pallet-bed with a head-piece) worth 17 drachmae, and a Kiv[ri Miri](novp'^fjs [<l]/i<^[(/fi']t(/)a[AA.()s], a bed or sofa with cushions at both ends : along with boxes, tables, chairs, vases, &c. As