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 INSCRIPTIONS liii (2) In four of the entries belonging to the eighth year we find the names recorded not twice but only once ; and we conjecture from the smallness of this payment that the regular tribute must have found a place somewhere else. But of this there is no evidence. (3) In the three principal instances the arrears supposed to be paid up belong not to the previous year, but to the year before that. Are we to suppose that there was first of all a part payment and an arrear, then a full payment in the following year, and in the year after that a full payment with the arrear paid up ? May we not suggest that if the quota lists had been perfect this and some other inferences which have been drawn from them would disappear ? (4) There is some presump- tion that the arrears of the quota, if they entered into the accounts at all, would be more numerous ; and (5) that they would be described under a separate heading. In the quota list of 427 or 426 a few cities appear under a heading which, as restored, runs [AiSe TToJXet? 7re/3i>(r[ivoi)] cji6pov Tjo, o[<^etA.o/x.€i/a aTrJ [eSoo-avj. Another almost equally probable explanation of the repetition may be gathered from the quota lists them- selves. The names of several cities occur twice over in the years 440, 439, 437, 436, 428, the first time for a larger sum, the second time for a smaller. Against the second sum is added the word eVi^opas, or additional tribute. For example, in the Ionian quota (440) there is an entry of a payment from the NotianS; 33 drachmae 2 obols, which is immediately followed by a second entry, — ' NoTt?}? eVt^opas 5 drachmae 3I obols.' There are in all about fourteen cities entered in this way, some of them more than once. Cp. also in the ra^t? ]opa.v [tcAciv]. It is perhaps worth observing that these entries all belong to a period later than the supposed arrears. It may also be remarked that amongst these repeated entries