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Rh collected at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, and probably also for the years preceding it, is given by Thucydides at about six hundred talents ; of the sums paid by particular states, however, we have little or no information. It was placed under the superintendence of the Hellenotamioe ; originally officers of the confederacy, but now removed from Delos to Athens, and acting altogether as an Athenian treasury-board. The sum total of the Athenian revenue, 2 from all sources, including this tiibute, at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, is stated by Xenophon at one thousand talents : customs, harbor, and market dues, receipts from the silver-mines at Laurium, rents of public property, fines from judicial sentences, a tax per head upon slaves, the annual payment made by each metic, etc., may have made up a larger sum than four hundred talents ; which sum, added to the six hundred talents from tribute', would make the total named by Xenophon. But a verse of Aristophanes, 3 during the ninth year of the Peloponnesian war, B.C. 422, gives the general total of that time as " nearly two thousand talents :" this Boeckh, Public Econ. of Athens, b. iii, ch. 7, 15, 19. y Axistophan. Vcsp. 660. rd/lavr' eyytJf dia^iXta.
 * Xenophon, Anab. vii, 1, 27. ov fielov %ikiuv rahuvTuv: compare