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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
This paper is (as will be sufficiently evident) a by-product of two systematic inquiries: one into the Strategia and Strategoi of the fifth century, the other into the military expenditure during the Peloponnesian War. The two inquiries cannot be kept distinct, and both have largely to depend on a minute study of the financial inscriptions.
page 33 note 1 I take as established Mr. Meritt's reading and placing of the fragments, and also the main bulk of bis supplements; no one who has either looked at the stone itself as reconstructed by Mr. Meritt in the Epigraphical Museum, or read his 80 closely-reasoned pages of justification, will doubt the safety of this course. He differs from I.G. I2 in such important respects that I must hope my readers will have his text before them.
page 33 note 2 Unless, indeed, Hagnon (440–429) be identified with Theramenes’ father; or, alternatively, Phormion and his son Asopios be really of the deme Paiania(see Kircbner, Prosopographia Attica, sub nominibus).
page 33 note 3 See Aristophanes, , Wasps, 968–970Google Scholar; Clouds, 580–587. The eclipse referred to in the latter passage was in March, 424. Cf. Busolt, , Gr.Gesch. III. 2. 1124Google Scholar.
page 34 note 1 See Appendix A.
page 34 note 2 He was a friend of Nikias, , see his career, Prosopographia Attica 11011Google Scholar, cf. 11051 with whom he is to be identified. Beloch's objections to this identification are not important. Nikostratos and (his son?) Dieitrephes appear to represent Leontis in precisely those years when Alkibiades does not; the recorded cases are (see Krause, A., Attische Strategenlisten, Weimar, 1914)Google Scholar 425/4 N, 424/3 N (see p. 38, n. 3), 423/2 N, 420/19 A, 419/8 A, 418/7 N (killed on service), 417/6 A, 416/5 A, 415/4 A, 414/3 D, 412/1 D, 411/0 A, etc. It is interesting, in view of this that in I.G. I2 302, line 16, in a payment made in 418, but after the death of Nikostratos, the rather long name and demotic ending in δει is capable of restoration as Αλκιβιαδει Σκαμβονι]δει: the space is wrongly given in I.G. I2, see West's republication of this stone, A.J.A. 32 (1928), p. 347Google Scholar, and P1. IV. Does this mean that Alkibiades was elected, on Nikostratos' death, for the remainder of the year?
page 34 note 3 See Appendix B.
page 35 note 1 Iteration was so much the rule in the Strategia, that I think it probable that Eurymedon was Strategos from 421/0 to 415/4. ‘Chairemon’ in 417/6 has been at last deleted from our lists by West (A.J.A. 32, p. 349); he is (though West has not seen this) Rhinon of Paiania (Prosop. Att. 12532) whom we know from 'Aθ. πολ 38 to have been Strategos in 403/2; the same passage makes it highly improbable that he was Strategos in 417/6. The wording of the inscription (I.G. I2 302, line 25)- -? τει στρατιαι τειεσ]τα επι Өραικεσ κα[ι] Pινονι, does not suggest a Strategos.
page 35 note 2 For the omission of the χσυναρχοντεσ, cf. e.g. line 18 of this inscription.
page 37 note 1 Ten Drachmas added to the 3rd payment means 10 subtracted from the 5th. This would indeed make the interest in both cases slightly more exact, mathematically, but I would be sorry to give up the beauty of the first sum on p. 66. Epigraphically, to subtract 10 Dr. from the 5th payment would reduce line 45 to 74 letters, like lines 38–44 and 47–49; it would leave line 46 rather isolated with its 75 letters.
page 37 note 2 As reckoned, roughly, from lines 98–110 of our inscription. The 1267 Talents in I. G. I2, 299 (to which 294 and 308 also belong) are for the siege of either Poteidaia or Mytilene.
page 38 note 1 [Xen.] 'AӨ. πολ 3. 2. The 100 Talents are borrowed about a fortnight after the Dionysia. Two more instances may be cited from our inscription. Lines 20 sqq., Nikiasgets 100 Talents about three weeks after the festival; line 13, 18½ Talents are borrowed about five weeks after it: 424 and 425 B.C.
page 37 note 2 It looks as if Nikomachides and Antisthenes were competing for a single place. The inference is not, however, inevitable.
page 37 note 3 It is possible that an ad hoc election also, such as Thucydides' commission on the Thracian coast in 424, may have been made ὲΞ ἁπάντων Nikostratos (see p. 34, n. 2) was Strategos the same year. But I think it more probable that this case is to be explained (like some other apparent cases of two to a tribe) by the death or deposition of one; Thucydides was exiled in 424, and Nikostratos was appointed for the remainder of the year.
