[266] Polybius IV. 26 προσελθοντος τοῦ βασιλέως πρὸς τὴν βουλὴν ἐν Αἰγίῳ.The business related to a question of war against the Ætolians.
[267] The evidence for this is referred to by Bishop Thirlwall (History of Greece, vol. VIII. p. 92). In 187 B.C. Eumenes king of Pergamum offered to give 120 talents, on condition that the money was invested and the interest used to pay the councillors (see Polybius XXIII. 7 in Dindorf's edition: XXII. 10 in Mr Shuckburgh's translation). The yearly interest of a talent would be about 720 drachmæ:—a large salary for a councillor. The councillors at Athens were paid about 300 drachmæ yearly, see above, p. 51, note 1.
[268] Polybius V. 94 ὐποστράτηγος. Strabo VIII. 7. 3 γραμματεύς: but this passage proves the existence of the office of secretary only for the very early days of the re-constituted league soon after 280 B.C.
[269] Freeman, Federal Government, p. 299, from Polybius IV. 7.
[270] Livy XXXII. 22 Magistratus (damiurgos vocant: decem numero creantur). The words magistratus and creantur indicate that they were elected.
[271] Livy XXXII. 22.
[272] Polybius XXIV. 5 in Bekker's and Dindorf's editions: XXIII. 5 in Mr Shuckburgh's translation.
[273] Aristotle himself, as we have seen, in one passage uses the term democracy to denote any government in which a large number of citizens take part: but in doing so he departs from his original definition of it.
[274] See Professor Freeman's History of Federal Government.