[178] Herodotus VI. 133 and 136.
[179] Xenophon, Hellenica I. 6 and 7. He names only eight admirals recalled. Grote makes the number nine.
[180] The observations contained in this paragraph were suggested to me firstly by Professor Mahaffy, Problems in Greek History § 38, and secondly by Mr W. Warde Fowler, The City State of the Greeks and Romans, chapter VI.
[181] The decrees granting pay for attendance at ecclesia are enumerated in Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 41. In the Ecclesiazusæ, first acted in 392 B.C., Chremes (at lines 381-2) says he had lost his three obols by being late for the assembly. For the allowance to citizens at religious festivals see Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 28.
[182] See Boeckh, Public Economy of Athens, book II. ch. 13-14.
Supposing half a drachma was paid to 18000 spectators at 30 festivals, to 8000 citizens at 50 assemblies and to 4000 dicasts for 300 days, and a whole drachma to 400 councillors for 300 days, we get a sum of 1,190,000 drachmæ, and, as there were 6000 drachmæ in a talent, this was equal to 198-1/3 talents.
[183] See Boeckh, Public Economy, book III. ch. 19.
[184] Grote, octavo edition, vol. VIII. pp. 81-98, cabinet edition, vol. XI. pp. 138-157.
[185] Thucydides III. 70-84. Grote, Part II. chapter LXXVIII.
[186] Thucydides VIII. 1.