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 298 HISTORY OF GREECE. By these ever-memorable enactments, all acts done prior to the nomination of the archon Eukleides and his colleagues, in the summer of 403 B.C., were excluded from serving as grounds for criminal process against any citizen. To insure more fully that this should be carried into effect, a special clause was added to the oath taken annually by the senators, as well as to that taken by the Heliastic dikasts. The senators pledged themselves by oath not to receive any impeachment, or give effect to any arrest, founded on any fact prior to the archonship of Eukleides, except- ing only against the Thirty, and the other individuals expressly shut out from the amnesty, and now in exile. 1 To the oath annually taken by the Heliasts, also, was added the clause : " I will not remember past wrongs, nor will I abet any one else who not offoi i JT* Evufaidov iTE&ijaav, KUI elalv, uvayeypa/jjievoi, [urf Evul.e Jo v] Kvpiovf elvai- TotJf de //er 1 'EvKfaidyv retftvraf Kal Tokonrov Kvpiovf elvai airb r^f rjfiepa^ fa aorof eretfj/, ir%7)v el TU irpo Xp6vo( ovTiva del apxstv. 'Eiuypaipai 6e, role fiev vvv Keifievoiz, TOV ypafifiarea rfjf /3ov7.?jf, rpiuKOvra ri[i.epETU TrapaxpJjfici TOV vo/iov nvpiov elvai UTTO T^J- The words UTT" Ev icl.etdov, which stand between brackets in the second Line, are inserted on my own conjecture ; and I venture to think that any one who will read the whole law through, and the comments of the orator upon it, will see that they are imperatively required to make the sense com- plete. The entire scope and purpose of the law is, to regulate clearly the time from which each law shall begin to be valid. As the first part of the law reads now, without these words, it has no pertinence, no bearing on the main purpose contemplated by Diokles in the second part, nor on the reasonings of Demosthenes afterwards. It is easy to understand how the words UTT' Eii/c/Utdou should have dropped out, see- ing that erf 'EvKkelSov immediately precedes : another error has been in fact introduced, by putting a TT' 'EiiK/t.eidov in the former case instead of e TT' "EvKfaiSov, which error has been corrected by various recent editors, on the authority of some MSS. The law of Diokles, when properly read, fully harmonizes with that of Tisamenns. Meier wonders that there is no mention made of the 6oKiftaaia vofiuv by the nomothetae, which is prescribed in the decree of Tisamenus. But it was not necessary to mention this expressly, since the words oaoi elalv avayeypafifievoi presuppose the foregone donifiaoia. 1 Andokides de Mysteriis, 9. 91. nut oil 6eo/j.ai evdeigiv oide urat'^Y^t IvtKa TUV irpoTepov yeyevq/ievur, 7rA;)v TUV