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 010 HISTORY OF GREECE. isolated state, without empire or foreign dependencies. For this purpose, material changes must have been required : among others, we know that the Board of Hellenotamiae originally named for the collection and management of the tribute at Delos, but attracting to themselves gradually more extended functions, until they became ultimately, immediately before the Thirty, the general paymasters of the state was discontinued, and such among its duties as did not pass away along with the loss of the foreign empire, were transferred to two new officers, the treasurer at war, and the manager of the theorikon, or religious festival-fund. 1 Respecting these two new departments, the latter of which especial- ly became so much extended as to comprise most of the disburse- ments of a peace-establishment, I shall speak more fully hereafter ; at present, I only notice them as manifestations of the large change in Athenian administration consequent upon the loss of the empire. There were doubtless many other changes arising from the same cause, though we do not know them in detail; and I incline to number among such the alteration above noticed respecting the right of citizenship. While the Athenian empire lasted, the citizens of Athens were spread over the JEgean in every sort of capacity, as settlers, merchants, navigators, soldiers, etc. ; which must have tended materially to encourage intermar- riages between them and the women of other Grecian insular states. Indeed, we are even told that an express permission of connubium with Athenians was granted to the inhabitants of Eu- bo3a,' 3 a fact, noticed by Lysias, of some moment in illustrating the tendency of the Athenian empire to multiply family ties be- tween Athens and the allied cities. Now, according to the law which prevailed before Eukleides, the son of every such marriage was by birth an Athenian citizen, an arrangement at that time useful to Athens, as strengthening the bonds of her empire, and eminently useful in a larger point of view, among the causes of Pan-Hellenic sympathy. But when Athens was deprived both of her empire and her fleet, and confined within the limits of Attica, '" See respecting this change Boeckh, Public Econ. of Athens, ii, 7, p. ISO, vcq., Eng. Tr. 2 Lysias, Fragm. Or.xxxiv, De non dissolvent Republic^, sect 3: icai ~EvQovoiv imyapiav tTroioviieda, etc,