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 xlvi THUCYDIDES last years of the war; another, 260, suppHes the date of the whole series of quota lists. See p. xxxvii.) The facts are as follows. The Ionian tribute, of which some record is preserved in these later fragments and in the ra^t? <^6pov, exhibits a rise from 9 talents 2,600 drachmae to 18 (or 27) talents * 2,100 drachmae. But (i) this calculation is made on a very inadequate basis, for only 9 out of 36 or ^th of the pay-- ments of the Ionic cities can be compared with previous payments ; and (2) the difference is more than accounted for by two cities : Clazomenae raised from i to 6 or 15 talents, Miletus raised from 5 to 10 talents. On the other hand, Colophon is lowered from i talents to 500 drachmae. And the one Ionian city, Elaeus in Erythraea, which appears in the ra^ts cjiopov, pays 100 drachmae as before. A short memorandum of the Hellespontian tribute occurs in the ra^'i? <fi6pov-. It is a mere fragment, or rather we have two fragments, belonging to different inscriptions or different parts of the ra^'is (for they over- lap), of which one has been restored by conjecture from the other. They are as follows : — ' [Clazomenae appears in two of the fragments of the tribute-lists thought to be later than 425 ; in one it pays 6 talents (C. I. A. iv. Suppl. iii. 272 a), in another 15 talents (C. I. A. i. 251). The tribute of Er3-thrae seems also to have been raised (it paid 12 talents according to 272 a), but as it is impossible to be certain what it paid since 440 (7 talents) it has not been taken into account above.] ^ [C. I. A. 259, containing a great part of the Thracian and Helles- pontian tribute, is almost certainly earlier than 425 : see Busolt, Philol. 41, p. 695 ff. It contains the names and paj'ments of twenty-two Thracian and twenty four Hellespontian cities; the Thracian tribute being slightly greater than the previous payments which we can trace ; the Hellespontian tribute showing a rise of about 14 talents in the cities of which a record is preserved, chiefly due to a large and perhaps exceptional increase in the payments of three or four. As none of the Thracian cities which revolted in 432 occur among the twenty-two cities in the list, it probably belongs to one of the years 431-426, not however to 428, for which the list is extant.]