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 78 HISTORY OF GREECE. seemingly with only Yvro modifications, first, the partial limita- tion of the right of suffrage; next, the discontinuance of all payment for political functions. The impeachment against Anti- phon, tried immediately afterwards, went before the senate and the dikastery exactly according to the old democratical forms of procedure. But we must presume that the senate, the dikasts, the nomothetae, the ekklesiasts, or citizens who attended the as- sembly, the public orators who prosecuted state-criminals, or de- fended any law when it was impugned, must have worked for the time without pay. Moreover, the two modifications above mentioned were of little practical effect. The exclusive body of Five Thousand citizens, professedly constituted at this juncture, was neither exactly real ized, nor long retained. It was constituted, even now, more as a nominal than as a real limit ; a nominal total, yet no longer a mere blank, as the Four Hundred had originally produced it, but containing, indeed, a number of individual names greater than the total, and without any assignable line of demarkation. The mere fact, that every one who furnished a panoply was entitled to be of the Five Thousand, and not they alone, but others besides, 1 shows that no care was taken to adhere either to that or to any other precise number. If we may credit a speech composed by Lysias, 2 the Four Hundred had themselves, after the demolition of their intended fortress at Ectioneia, and when power was passing out of their hands, appointed a committee of their number to draw up for the first time a real list of The Five Thousand ; and Polystratus, a member of that committee, takes credit with the succeeding democracy for having made the list comprise nine thousand names instead of five thousand. As this list of Polystratus if, indeed, it ever existed was never either published or adopted, I merely notice the description given of it, to illustrate my position that the number Five Thousand was now understood on all sides as an indefinite expression for a 1 The wcrds of Thucydides (viii, 97), elvai <5 aiiTcJv, cnroaoi KOI OTT/ICI TttptxovTai, show that this body was not composed exclusively of Ihose who tarnished panoplies. It could never have been intended, for example, tc occlude the hippcis, or knights.
 * Lv>ias, Orat. xx, pro Polystrato, c. 4, p. 675. TCcisk