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 104 HISTORY OF GREECE. nouncing and barring all revival of- these suspended rights. H was farther decreed that henceforward no Athenian should on any Diodor. xv, 28, 29. 'EipriQiaavTO c5e KM rat; yevofiivaf an oKOTaaTrjaai Tolg TrpoTepov Kvpioif yeyovoai, Kal vupov i-Qeir-o urjdeva TUV ' 'Adyvaiuv yeupyeiv e/crdf TT/<; 'Arrt/cf/f. Am 6e TO.VTIJI; rr/Q tjtiXav&pumaf uvanTijauuevoi rrjv napu rotf "ETJiqaiv evvoiav, ia%vpoTE- pai> EnoiTjoavTO rr/v Idiav f/yefioviav. Isokratcs and Diodorus speak loosely of this vote, in language which might make us imagine that it was one of distinct restitution, giving back property actually enjoyed. But the Athenians had never actually regained the outlying private property last at the close of the war, though they had much desired it, and had cherished hopes that a favorable turn of circum- stances might enable them to effect the recovery. As the recovery, if effected, would be at the cost of those whom they were now soliciting as allies, the public and formal renunciation of such rights was a measure of much policy, and contributed greatly to appease uneasiness in the islands though in point of fact nothing was given up except rights to property not really enjoyed. . An Inscription has recently been discovered at Athens, recording the original Athenian decree, of -which the main provisions are mentioned in my text. It bears date in the archonship of Nausinikus. It stands, with the restorations of M. Boeckh (fortunately a portion of it has been found in tolerably good preservation), in the Appendix to the new edition of his work, " Uber die Staats-haushaltung der Athencr Verbesserungen und Nachtrage zu den drei Banden der Staats-haushaltung der Athener," p. xx. 'ATrd <5e NavaiviKov upxovTOf ur} e^etvai UIJTE ISly, / u?/re 6rifj.o(sig. 'A&wvaiuv ur}-&evl EyKTr/aaadai ev rale TUV avuuuxuv x&paif [tr/re o'tKiav fifjre x7roi9e/i/vo, [irjre a/lAu rpoTru firi&evi. 'Euv 6e rif uvr/- rai r) /crarai fj ri-&7)Tai rpony bryovv, k^elvai rii /fov/lo/iev^j TUV ovfj.fj.uxov (j>7jvat -rrpb; rot)f ffvvefipovf TUV 7/(j>i. Zquiovvrav 6s aiiTbv &ava,Tu ?) vyrj btrov 'A&Tjvaloi Kal ol avuuaxoi KpaTovai. 'Euv 6e davury TlfJL71$ri, [IT) Ta7/TU EV TI} 'ATTlKrj U7)6e EV TT) TUV dVUUUXUV. Then follows a direction, that the Secretary of the Senate of Five Hun- dred shall inscribe the decree on a column of stone, and place it by the sidis of the statue of Zeus Eleutherius ; with orders to the Treasurers of the god- dess to disburse sixty drachmas for the cost of so doing. It appears that there is annexed to this Inscription a list of such cities aa