Page:Thucydides, translated into English Vol 1.djvu/79

 INSCRIPTIONS Ixxv only oi the first five years of the war, but also of the two years which preceded it. A question which has been discussed by Boeckh, Staats- haush. i. pp. 221, 578 ff". (199, 519 fT, ed. Frankel), natu- rally arises in connexion with this inscription : in what relation did the sacred treasure stand to the secular, or rather what made the distinction between them? The ^o'pos would naturally at first sight appear to be secular treasure ; as the quota to the Goddess and the gold and silver plate contained in the inventories are sacred treasure. The first was under the control of the Ilellenotamiae, the second under that of the ra/Atat t»}s 'A^i/vatas and the ra/tiat Twj/ aAAwi/ O^Mv. But, besides the quota and the articles of gold and silver plate, there were large sums of money kept in the temple which had a less strictly consecrated character. These may be described as held in trust by the corporation : that is to say, they were also under the care of the ra/xt'ai -n}? Oiov, but they might be lent with the consent of the ecclesia in the service of the state, whereas no such limitation was imposed, as far as we know, on the use of the cfi6po3 or of other moneys as long as they remained in the hands of the Hellenotamiae (see p. Ixxvii). The repayment of 3,000 talents (C. I. A. 32) seems to con- firm this view. For so large a sum cannot be supposed to have been the private property of the temple. Again, for the still larger sums taken from the temple treasuries the state was in the habit, as we have seen, of professing to pay a small interest. But we have no record of interest claimed on any but sacred treasure. The following extracts from inscriptions taken from Kirchhoff; p. 36 ff"., indicate a difference between the func- tions of the Hellenotamiae and of the ra/xtat t^s 'A^7/va.w, and therefore between secular and sacred funds. C. I. A. 314, 315 (430 B.C.). The payments received by the eVtcrrdrat or curators of the building of the Propylaea are divided at the end into three separate accounts : of the money received, (l) Trapa t^im 7rp[oT€pwv e]7rto-TaT[wi/ ots] f2