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INSCRIPTIONS IxXXV II. Decrees of the senate and people not already men- tioned, and not relating to finance, but to the allies, rela- tions with other states, &c., which illustrate the history of Thucydides, are the following : — C. I. A. 9 is an inscription no longer existing and incor- rectly copied, but of great importance '. It contains a decree (i) requiring the Erythraeans to contribute to the Panathenaic festival something, probably victims, worth 3 minae, under a penalty : (2) creating a (SovXy of the democratic type consisting of 120 members, who are to be at least 30 years of age. Their oath of office and the penalties which attach to the non-enforcement of it by the existing f^ovXy are inserted in the decree. Mention occurs in the oath of [ot c?] Mr/Soi;9 <^uyo[j/Tes]. In another part of the decree penalties are imposed upon persons guilty of homicide, impiety, or treason. The two fragments which follow (C. I. A. 10, 11) also relate to Erythrae, the former making mention of lawsuits, the latter of an oath to be taken by the Erythraeans. All these three relate to the times between the Persian and the Peloponnesian wars. The form of the letters is said to show that 10 belongs to a time before 450. Both 9 and 10 mention iTridKorroi : cp. Aristoph. Birds, 1021 ff. C. LA. 13. Cp. 36. Both these relate to Colophon. The first is part of a decree regulating the affairs of the Colophonians, to which is attached a form of oath to be taken by them. The second is a decree conferring pro- tection and other favours and honours on Aretus the Colophonian, for services rendered to the Athenian people and their army ([K]ai rot-s orpanwras), probably at the time Pollux, Onomasticon, 10, 36, says, Iv bt rofs briniOTt parous nenparai^ 'A- Ki0ia5ov xa/i€u.'t/ irapaKoWos xal KXifrj AfX'Pud'paXos (for which dfi<piKuf<pa- Xos had been suggested e conj. before the discovery of the inscription), we probably have here a list of the confiscated furniture of Alcibiades.] 1 For this and the following inscriptions relating to Erythrae, Colophon, Chalcis, Hestiaea, and Miletus, see Abbott, History of Greece, vol. ii., ix. 21, X. g-ii.