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 INSCRIPTIONS XXXVU archaic nowhere appear in them, the forms AABA/f>$© still for a time remain, sometimes varying in the same in- scription, sometimes recurring later than the more modern forms (Kohler, Delisch-Attischer Bund, p. 4 ; Roberts, Epigraphy, p. 102). An inscription which has been dis- covered since the time of Boeckh enables us to correct two erroneous conclusions which he drew : (i) he placed the commencement of the series in 447 B.C. instead of 454 ; (2) he estimated the quota paid to the Goddess as jl^ instead of eV- The inscription which gave us the facts (C. I. A. 260) contains the words yjpx^ 81 'A^T/vat'oi? 'Apto-nW : and iirl Trj^ TCTapT7;s Kat Tp[^LaKO(TTrjs o.p)(rj<; ol rpiaKovra aTr€(f)7j'ajv Ti]V aTrap-)(y]v rrj ^ew, fivav arro Tov TaXav[TOwJ. Of these two great monuments we may remark that they have scarcely any connexion with each other. One relates to a single year, the other extends with considerable gaps over a period of 33 years. The ra^t? cfjopov contains only the tribute to be paid by most of the Islanders, some of the Thracian cities, and a small part of the assessments made on the lonians, Carians, and Hellespontians. The quota lists contain accounts more or less complete in different years of all these ; they are in some years nearly perfect, so that we cannot suppose many cities to be accidentally wanting in them. Of those presumed to be subsequent to the ra^is (fiopov (see p. xlv) we have only fragments of which little can be made. Nor are we certain that if both had been completely preserved to us the quota lists would have agreed precisely {fxva dirb tov raXavrov) with the Tu^is (j>6pov. For the one is a record of the sums actually received, or rather of a portion of them, the other is only an estimate of money which the Athenian magis- trates meant or expected to collect. Moreover, the ral^is cfiopov contains more than fifty names or traces of names not mentioned in the tribute lists, and these of course contain many not found in the ra^^s 4>6pov. The passages in Thucydides which relate to the tribute are five in number.