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 CENSUS TAKEN AT ATHENS. 863 restricting the cost and ostentation of funerals. ^ He liiaself extolled his own decennial period as one of abundance and flour- ishing commerce at Athens.*^ But we learn from others, and the fact is highly probable, that it was a period of distress and hu miliation, both at Athens and in other Grecian towns ; and that Athenians, as well as others, welcomed new projects of coloni- zation (such as that of Ophelias from Kyrene) not simply from prospects of advantage, but also as an escape from existing evils.^ What forms of nominal democracy were kept up during this interval, we cannot discover. The popular judicature must have been continued for private suits and accusations, since Deinar- chus is said to have been in large practice as a logographer, or composer of discourses for others.* But the fact that three hun- dred and sixty statues were erected in honor of Demetrius while his administration was still going on, demonstrates the gross flattery of his partisans, the subjection of the people, and the practical abolition of all free-spoken censure or pronounced oppo- sition. "We learn that, in some one of the ten years of his administration, a census was taken of the inhabitants of Attica ; and that there were numbered, 21,000 citizens, 10,000 metics, and ' Cicero, De Legg. ii. 26, 66 ; Strabo, ix. p. 398 ; Pausanias, i. 25, 5. rvpavvov re '' k-drivaioic eTrpa^e yevcadai Ari/iiiTpiov, etc. Duris ap. Athenae- um, xii. 542. Fragm. 27. vol. iii. p. 477. Frag. Hist. Giaec. The Phalerean Demetrius composed, among numerous historical, philo- sophical, and literary works, a narrative of his own decennial administra- tion (Diogenes Laert. v. 5, 9; Strabo, ib.) — nepl ttj^ SeKaETiac. The statement of 1200 talents, as the annual revenue handled by Deme- trius, deserves little credit. ^ See the Fragment of Demochares, 2 . Fragment. Historic. Grasc. ed. Didot, vol. ii. p. 448, ap. Polyb. xii. 13. Demochares, nephew of the orator Demosthenes, was the political opponent of Demetrius Phalereus, whom he reproached with these boasts about commercial prosperity, wlien the liberty and dignity of the city were overthrown. To such boasts of Demetrius Phalereus probably belongs the statement cited from him by Strabo (iii. p. 147) about the laborious works in the Attic mines at Laureium. •* Diodor. xx. 40. uffi?' VKE2,u/i(3avov /lij fiovov iyKparei^ eaeadaf. t >X(Jv dya^C)v, (i/l/ld kcu tuv irapavruv KaKuv unaWayijaea'&ai. us, 10. ?.6y ^akr)peuQ 60va/itv, etc.
 * Dionys. Halic. Judicium de Dinarcho, p. 63.3, G34 ; Plutarch, Demetri-