70–72, the list of public debtors, much checked,
40
the list of men owing
equipment to the city,
41
the list of traitors read out by Lycurgus,
42
the list of
Plataians granted citizenship set up on stone on the Acropolis near the
‘‘Temple of the Goddess’’ ([Dem] 59.105). Isocrates mentions other lists
put up onsanidesby 353 (Antid. 237), and there was a much disputed
wooden list of the cavalry under the Thirty (Lys. XVI 5–7).
Andocides’ On the Mysteries quoted the decree of Patrocleides of
405 B.C., which arranged for an erasure of names from incriminating docu-
ments in the panic of 405 (Andoc. I 77–79). It is not clear how many of
these were on publicly displayed lists on stone or wood, but even so, the
number of lists available seems impressive—some perhaps mainly for offi-
cials, others for public consumption. The decree mentions the list of desert-
ers, those tried for homicide or guilty of massacre or attempted tyranny, or
those listed as one of the Four Hundred. Chapter 77 also mentions those
‘‘listed’’ or ‘‘registered’’ (ðåæd ôHí KªªåªæÆììÝíøí) withthePraktoresor with
theTreasurers ofAthenaandother Deities or withtheBasileus, thoseatimoi
for debt or guilty of administration. All these people listed are to have an
amnesty, and their names erased, except those categories described (I 78) as
‘‘all those listed onstelai’’ (ðºcí ›ðüóÆ Kí óôÞºÆØò ªÝªæÆðôÆØ) as deserters,
Figure 2.8bATL vol. I, plate IV, First Stele (obverse), List 3.- [Dem.] 58.14 16, 48, 51; [Dem.] 25 (Ag. Aristogeiton) 69 70, referring to it as
‘‘thesaniswith the goddess.’’ - Dem. 47 (Ag. Evergos) 22, a stele.
- Lycurgus,Leocr. I, 117 119.
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