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 XXX VI THUCYDIDES 1. 47 ff. : 'The senate fixed the tribute of the cities in the year of which Pleistias was the first Registrar, in the Ar- chonship of Stratocles, as follows.' Then comes a long list of tributary cities, divided (as in some of the quota lists, see infra) into 4 classes : (i) the Islanders; (2) the Ionian and Carian cities ; {3) the Thracian ; (4) the Hellespontian cities. The list is very imperfect, and the payments imposed on the allies are still more so. The sums to be paid by the Islanders, j/i/o-iwtikos ^o/dos, and the names to which they are appended, are the most complete part. The names of one Ionian city and of twelve Carian (four of the Carian cities occurring nowhere else), with their tribute, are also preserved. A fragment recently discovered, fitting into part of the inscription previously known, gives us the tribute of seventeen Thracian cities, six of which, as well as two occurring on the part previously known, are found in no other list. (See C. I. A. 37. Suppl. iii.) Of the Hellespontian tribute there are a few doubtful memoranda ; of Thracian and Hellespontian names there are several, and many more Ionian and Carian, but unfortunately the amount to be paid is lost ; and there are some sums with no names, or only fragments of names opposite to them. I. ii. The quota lists, like the ra^is <^6pov, are very im- perfectly preserved. They are made up of many small fragments; the number at present discovered is about 150. The first of them belongs to the year 454 ; the last dated to the year 421 b.c. But from 435 to 421 inclusive we have no list approaching completeness, and only three extensive fragments (428, 427 or 426, and a year between 431 and 426). The portion of them with which the series commences was originally inscribed on a single rectangular block of Pentelic marble ; this ends in 440. Another, engraved on a similar block but more incomplete, extends from 439 to 432 B.C. The other extant lists are engraved on tablets. A gradual change in the form of the letters is observable in the successive years. While the more