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 INSCRIPTIONS Xlvii (i) C. I. A. 37. z" (the lower portion) :— EUUE."^0NTI04>0D E4)AUA. ON "AIAIPOUES -TANTAN PO IT^ NESIG (2) C. I. A, 543, and Suppl. i. : — KE* HHF AKTA » ''EXXr][^ar]TrovTLOV <^op[ov] KC(/)d/a[tJov HHP4^<^44^PPHHH (295 talents 5300 drachmae) 'AKTaiat TToActs fVKTaiat 7roA€ts n TT ^Avrav[8po. ( ^p_ ^j^^^^ ic. IV. 52, 75. Nr/o-o- 'PotT[etoi'] i The restored inscription, supposing the conjectural restoration of the fragments to be admitted (and they certainly exhibit a curious coincidence) ', would prove that the Hellespontian tribute amounted to 295 talents 5,300 drachmae. But the whole tribute calculated upon the lists of 446-440 was only about 80 talents ; calculated upon the list (259) referred to on the preceding page, there is no reason to think that it amounted to more than 100 talents. The increase, therefore, would be at the rate of 3 to I, not of 2 to I. ' [But for C. I. A. 543, we might with Beloch, Rheinisches Museum, xxxix. p. 42, restore 195, not 295, talents in C. I. A. 37.]