Book II - Wilbourhall.org

150 eOYKYAIAOY tslYTTFA^K'S B.not be pruned, for rrjs irfxxrdSov defines the nature of Icrx'^,and Tuv xP'/M'^^o"' is caught up presently by xRVf^^^wvagain : the insertion of tQv xPVf^v—in I. 96 we see that under Aristides'administration the l>pos amounted to 460 talents. In thelists of the quota paid to Athene for 450 and 446 B.C., thetribute of some States is seen to be reduced, and the totalwas probably made up by payments from new subjects. Butthe tribute was in some cases subsequently raised, so that 600talents may represent the average (wj i-.d rb ttoXi)) in 431.4>($pov—for this genitive of material, cf. dpyvplov below. SeeRutherford, Syntax, p. 35. dirJ> twv iy\i..—the origin (iird)from which money is obtained. Cf. Aristoph. Vesp. 670SwpodoKov(TLv dnb ruv irSXeuv (rightly defended by Sobolewski,de praepos. iifiu Aristoph.). dv€v—this is the ordinarymeaning of x^pis as a preposition in Attic, but Thuc. onlyuses xwpis as an adverb. The opposite of ffi/v (tois) Oeois (seec. 2, 1) is S.v€v (twv) deQv. The opposite of a^v in its otherAttic sense in totals, is usually x^P'-^- The opposite of fjLerd is&vev, and more rardy x^P's (thus Isocrates has two cases, but inboth xwpis, not dvev, is used to avoid hiatus). rijs 4XXt]sxpo(r