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 xviii THUCYDIDES name 2/At/a;^[os], as the y/3a/i,/i,aTCVs of the ra/Aiat Twv i€/3wv XPVIJ^aTwv ri?5 'A^aias (C. I. A. I30, Ol. 89. I, B.C. 424-423, the year after that in which the Knights was performed), proves the futihty of this statement. The name was in fact borne by more than one Athenian citizen (cp. C. I. A. 60, 432, 433, 447). The same or another schoHast is more fortunate in the illustration of Birds, 1128 — iTTTroiv VTTOvTiov fx.lyi.Oo'i ocrov 6 oovpto?, which, he says, is a reference to a bronze figure of the Trojan horse dedicated on the Acropolis, and bearing the inscription — ^aipeSyjfj.o'S Y,vayy4Xov e/c Koi'At^s aviOr]K€. And these very words inscribed on a pedestal (C. I. A. 406) have been discovered on the Acropolis. More impor- tant contributions to history are made by the ra^is (jiopov (C. I. A. 37 or estimate of the Athenian tribute, framed in 425 B.C., which has been thought by some to confirm the statements of the Orators respecting the doubling of the tribute during the Peloponnesian war (see infra, p. xlv). Still more important is the inscription (C. I. A. 433) over the Athenians of the tribe Erechtheis, who fell all in the same year (about 459 b. c.) in Cyprus, in Egypt, in Phoenicia, at Halieis, in Aegina, and at Megara : or that containing part of the treaty made by Athens with Argos (C. I. A. 46 /;, Suppl. i) in the year 420 b. c. Both of these verify the details of Thucydides, and are worth many pages of Diodorus or Plutarch. In the tribute lists of the year 443 b. c, C. I. A. 237, we find traces of a name beloved in Greek literature — [5:]0[ct>]OI<U[ES] l<OUO[NEOEN HEUUENOTAMIA]^: EN | The mutilated condition of the earlier Greek inscriptions offers a wide field for conjecture. But there are many ways in which the conjectural restoration of inscriptions is both assisted and limited ; and it diff'ers in several respects from the emendation of MSS. In the case of inscriptions