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 INSCRIPTIONS Ixxxix By the second decree the Methonaeans receive per- mission to export corn up to a certain amount from Byzan- tium, and are not to be hindered in doing so by some officers called Wardens of the Hellespont. As in the former decree, they are only subject to special regula- tions about aid to be given to the Athenian state or any other service required of the allies. The differences with Perdiccas still continue. The third decree is a mere frag- ment. 42 is an alliance made with Perdiccas, but the fragments of the inscription have no connected meaning. The treaty refers to Arrhibaeus (Thuc. iv. 79, 83, 124), and among the names appended to it are those of Alcetas (Plato, Gorg. 471) and Philip (Thuc. i. 57), the brothers of Per- diccas, and of Archelaus the son of Perdiccas. Suppl. iii. 42 (p. 141), apparently belonging to the last- mentioned, gives the terms of an oath to be taken by Per- diccas, and a promise not to permit the exportation of wood for oars (KWTrets) from Macedonia except for Athenian use. Thucydides only mentions an agreement {o/xoNoyta) made between Perdiccas and the Athenian generals in Thrace (iv. 132, 423 B. c.) : but v. 6, 83, take for granted the existence of an alliance (^v/x/xaxt'a). In 43, to which no meaning can be given, the names of Perdiccas and perhaps Arrhibaeus also occur. 45. In the archonship of Aristion, b. c. 421, one Asteas of Alea (in Arcadia) is inscribed as proxenus and benefactor of Athens. Cp. 27 and Suppl. i, where three citizens of Thespiae are similarly described; Thuc. iv. 133, ©r/ySatot ©€(r7rt€wv T(L)^o<; TrcpieiNoi; eTrtKaXe'crai^cs A.TTiKL(Tfxov. 46^ (Suppl. i). This is a fragment of a marble tablet containing the ends of twenty-six lines of the treaty be- tween Athens, Argos, Elis and Mantinea, recorded also in Thuc. v. 47. Kirchhofif (' Hermes' xii. p. 368 ff.) notes thirty-one variations between the text of Bekker and the inscription. But of these only six occur in the inscription itself; the rest are but variations from Kirchhoflf's con- VOL. I. g