io if RIS TO TLE 'A' POL2 TICS.
- rg. 810@rAia.
The diobelia was the ordinary payment of two obols for attend-
ance on the assembly and the courts, and also for theatrical
entertainments. These payments seem in the later days of Athens,
and even during the Peloponnesian war, to have amounted to
three obols, and some of them to have been as high as a drachma.
They were also made much more frequently than in ' the good old
times.' Cp. Schol. in Aristoph. J-esp. 684, where it is said on the
authority of Aristotle in [the] Politics that the sum given was
originally three obols, but afterwards varied at different times : also
cp. Lucian Dem. Encom. 36; Prooem. Dem. 1459, 27, a remark-
able place ; and other passages quoted by Boeckh, ' Public
Economy,' Eng. Tr. vol. i. ed. I, pp. 296 ff.
- T&V 02" TOLOLTOV dpX{ K.T.A.
If C+JX$ be retained, r&v roio6rov refers to some idea of reform
vagucly implied in the previous sentences. conj. Scaliger, dpxti
- T&V 02" TOLOLTOV dpX{ K.T.A.
3 Coraes.
- <&A' ckcp 6ri 67po~iovs clvnr, rois T& ~orvh ipyacopivovs 6ri Ka@drrcp iv
'Em?&~vy If, Kai &s Atdr$avrdr Torr taTfuK&<fv 'A@jyuc, TOSTOV ?,yfu
TLb Tpd7TOV.
Bernays places a comma after &p, and omits the second &i,
plncing a Kai before Ka86rrcp. 'But if this is so (i. e. if artisans
are to be public slaves), those who are to be engaged in public
works should be slaves.' h'early the same meaning may be got
from the text, *if we place a comma after &ai and remove the
comma after ipya[oplvous : 'But if artisans are to be public slaves,
those \Tho are engaged in public works should form this class.'
This Diophantus, or
' some one else of the same name, about whom nothing is known,'
n-as Archon at Athens in the year 395.
- <&A' ckcp 6ri 67po~iovs clvnr, rois T& ~orvh ipyacopivovs 6ri Ka@drrcp iv
TOGTOY ;,yew T~V T~&OV, SC. 6~pou~ous &a'.- I. Stobaeus has preserved some fragments or a work sspi TO~L-
rriar, which bear the name of 'Hippodamus the Pythagorean'
(Florileg. xliii. pp. 248-251, rcviii. p. 534, IIullach. Fragm. Philos.
Graec. vol. ii. p. XI). But there can be little doubt that they are,
as Schneider says, the pious fraud of some later writer. The