III. MONEY. For the calculation of the various sums of money mentioned in these speeches, the following simple table will perhaps be useful:: The talent and mina were not coins but sums, and were used as symbols in the calculation of coins. The standard coin was the drachma (about 10d.), and was, with its multiples, silver. When a numeral like dioxia is used without any coin being added, ôpaxuaí is always to be understood. Besides this we have two gold coins alluded to-(1) the daric (v. 1. 72), which was reckoned as worth twenty Attic drachmæ ; (2) the Kyzikene stater (ib.), which at any rate in the Bosporus was worth twenty-eight Attic drachmæ (Demosth. 914); whether it was of that value universally does not seem certain, though perhaps Demosthenes' words (èkeî édúvaтo) may imply that it was not; (3) the Attic stater was worth 20 drachmæ, or if pure gold, 28; see Head, Hist. Num. p. 450; Kirch. C. I. A., p. 160. The Athenian silver coinage was purer than that of most other States, though at times attempts were made to debase it. See Arist. Ran. 717 sq. Xen. Vect. iii. 2. Polyb. 21, 32. Down to the half-obol it was of silver, not copper, which helps to explain that curious habit often alluded to by Aristophanes of putting small change in the mouth. See Equit. 51. Pax, 645. Vespæ, 609. Aves, 503. Eccles. 818. Theophrast. Char. vi. IV. HARPOCRATION'S LEXICON. The following speeches of Lysias are quoted by Harpocration (fl. circa 350 A.D.) Those printed in thick type are extant. Those to which an asterisk is prefixed are, according to him, of doubtful genuineness; those to which two asterisks are prefixed are sometimes referred to by him as doubtful (εἰ γνήσιος ἐστι sometimes without any mark of doubt. V. [Oath of Athenian Dicasts. Demosth. 746. For reasons against receiving it as the genuine oath, see Wayte's notes. For the objection to Clause 2 'as if a tyranny could be voted,' it might be alleged that 'political decisions' have never failed to bring discredit on law courts, and it is in this sense that an inequitable decision is in its nature revolutionary, that Demosth., ib. § 152, interprets it, cf. Aesch. iii. § 195; besides, a certain number of them annually revised the laws as Nomothetae.] 'I will vote in accordance with the laws and the decrees of the Demus of the Athenians, and of the Boulè of the Five Hundred. 'That a tyrant should be I will not vote, nor an oligarchy: nor, if any try to abolish the Demus of the Athenians, or speak or put to the vote aught contrary to these things, will I hearken to him. 'Nor a cancelling of private debts, nor a redistribution of land or houses of the Athenians. 'I will not recall those in exile, nor those on whom sentence of death has been passed. Neither those who are abiding will I banish contrary to the existing laws and the decrees of the Demus of the Athenians,-I will not do so myself, nor suffer others so to do. 'I will not confirm an office so that a man hold it before he have passed his audit for another office, whether one of the nine Archons, or sacred Recorder, or whatever offices are balloted for this day with the nine Archons,-whether herald, or ambassador, or deputies.1 'I will not vote that the same man hold the same office twice, nor that the same man hold two offices in the same year. 'I will receive no gifts on account of my service in court,neither myself nor any other man or woman for me, by any means or contrivance whatsoever. 'I am not under thirty years of age. 'I will listen to the accuser and the defendant both alike. 'I will give my vote on the question at issue, and none other. 'I swear by Zeus Poseidon Demeter: I invoke utter destruction on myself and my house if I transgress aught of these things, and many blessings if I keep my oath.' 1 ouveôpoi, i.e. members of the Congress of States sitting at Athens after B.C. 377. See Dict. of Antiq., Grote, ix. p. 319. 2 Compare the comic oath in Aristoph. Ran. 586: ἀλλ ̓ ἤν σε τοῦ λοιποῦ ποτ ̓ ἀφέλωμαι χρόνου κάκιστ' ἀπολοίμην. Pollux (8, 122) says that the oath was by Zeus, Demeter, and Apollo. [The References are to the NOTES by the number of Speech and Line, except where the page (p.) or section (§) is notified.] INDICES. I. PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS. ACCUSATIVE absolute, 2, 98, 117; Adriatic, the, 16, 214. age, coming of, 4, 209; 8, 163; Agesilaus, 8, 124. and profanation of the Mys- aorist infin. after verbs of Agora, shops round the, 13, 150; arbitration, 4, 36. living near, 10, 376. Alcibiades (the elder), 5, 295; his second disgrace, 7, 272; his subsequent conduct, 7, 287; feeling at Athens towards, 7, 123; characteristic remark about his son, 7, 205; false charge against, about Egospotami, 7, 293; his pedigree, 7, 305; his connection with the mutilation of Hermæ Archebiades, 7, 208. 12, 15 the Polemarch, 12, 7. archonship obtained by lot, 13, 99; qualifications for, ib. Areopagus, pp. 197-8; 4, 70-2, 209; 5, 471; p. 356. Arginusæ, 5, 252, 367. Argives protect the exiles, 5, Cnidus, battle of, 8, 124; 10, 674. Aristocrates, 5, 457. Aristophanes, s. of Nicophemus, arrest, summary, 4, 60. BATRACHUS, 5, 337; p. 361. 6, Baotians, 5, 407; 15, 174. 186. comparatives, double, 10, 94. cowardice, punishment of, 4, 4. DAMNIPPUS, 5, 82. dative, of the agent, 3, 28: 5, Decelea, 7, 227; 12, 13; p. 360. business, public, interest in, 8, Dionysia, the, 16, 174. 170. CALLAESCHRUS, 5, 453. Calliades, 15, 110. Callibius, 6, 319. Callicrates, 3, 27. Dionysius of Syracuse, 10, 119. divorce, 7, 215. Diotimus, 10, 328. dowries, 6, 312; 8, 74; 10, 403. dress, 4, 61. ELEUSIS, 5, 367. Callius, s. of Hipponichus, 10, Dracontides, 5, 502; p. 360. 310. Cannonus, psephisma of, 5, 367. Chalcedon, 10, 346. Chalcis, 13, 187. 16, 165, 245. Chersonese, 16, 46. cheapness of living at Athens, Eleven, the, 4, 60; 11, 11; p. 362. enemies, duty of injuring 3 Chremon, 15, 93. 119; 7, 145. Cleophon, 6, 55, 82; 10, 315; Ephesus, 16, 54. 15, 79. clerk of Prytanes, 15, 233. clubs, 5, 305. ephors, at Athens, 5, 305, 321; p. 359. Epichares, 5, 381. |