Page:History of Greece Vol XII.djvu/333

 AMOUNT OF THE IIARPALIAN TRKASURE. 301 cry were excited.i It was assumed that the missing half of the sum set forth must have been employed in corruption ; and sus- picions prevailed against almost all the orators, Demosthenes and Hyperides both included. In this state of doubt, Demosthenes moved that the Senate of Areopagus should investigate the matter and report who were the presumed delinquents^ fit to be indicted before the Dikastery ; he declared in the speech accompanying his motion that the real delinquents, whoever they might be, deserved to be capitally punished. The Areopagites delayed their report for six months, though Demosthenes is said to have called for it with some im- . patience. Search was made in the houses of the leading orators, excepting only one who was recently married.3 At length the report appeared, enumerating several names of citizens chargea- ble with the appropriation of this money, and specifying how much had been taken by each. Among these names were Demos- thenes himself, charged with 20 talents — Demades charged with 6000 golden staters — and other citizens, with different sums attached to their names.* Upon this report, ten^ public accusers were appointed to prosecute the indictment against the persons specified, before the Dikastery. Among the accusers was Hyperides, whose name had not been comprised in the Areo' ' Plutarch, Vit. X. Orat. p. 846. In the life of Demosthenes given by Photius (Cod. 265, p. 494) ic is stated that only 308 talents were found. pressed by his accuser Deinarchus — adv. Demosth. s. 5. 02, 84, etc.: com- pare also the Fragm. of Hyperides, p. 59, ed. Babington. Deinarchus, in his loose rhetoric, tries to put the case as if Demostiienes had proposed to recognize the sentence of the Areopagus as final and peremptory, and stood therefore condemned upon the authority invoked by himself. But this is refuted sufficiently by the mere fact that the trial was instituted afterwards ; besides that, it is repugnant to the judicial prac- tice of Athens. ' Plutarch, Demosth. 26. We learn from Deinarchus (adv. Demosth. s 46) that the report of the Areopagites was not delivered until after an inte» val of six months. About their delay and the impatience of Demosthenc? see Fragm. Hyperides, pp. 12-33, ed. Babington. Babington, p. 18. ers. VOL. XIT. 2S
 * That this motion was made by Demosthenes himself, is a point strongly
 * Deinarchus adv. Demosth. s. 92. See the Fragm. of Hyperides in Mr
 * Deinarchus adv. Aristogeiton, s. 6. Stratokles was one of the accus