on inscriptions
 

OF the
 

AGE    OF   THUCYDIDES.
 

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.

Nature of the study, ix ; where inscriptions are found, x ; process
of restoring, deciphering, fixing the date, xi ; Messenians of Naupactus,
xi ; Alcibiades, Mitylen^, xii, cp. Ixxxviii ; ancient forms of letters and
words, xii; illustrations of Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plutarch, etc., xiv;
mention of Sophocles, xvi; inscriptions compared with MSS., xvi;
restoration of them assisted by uniformity of writing and contents, xvii;
danger of conjectural explanations, which are sometimes overthrown
by later discoveries, xix, cp. xxxii, xlviii; inscriptions illustrate an¬
tiquities more than history, xxi ; accounts of the ' Board of Admiralty,'
and of the Erechtheum, xxii; inscriptions chiefly belong to later
times, xxii; use of them by the ancients, xxii; interest of them as
relics of the past, xxiii ; the oldest are comparatively recent, xxiv ;
literary interest, xxvi; forgery, xxvii.

Inscriptions illustrating Thucydides : The Ta^is <f)6pov and quota
lists, xxix ; comparison of Thucydides and the quota lists, xxxiii ;
doubling of the tribute in 425 (?), xxxviii ; arrears recorded in the
quota lists (?), xliii ; Melos and Thera, xlvi; famine of 449 {?), xlvii ;
geographical division of the tributaries, xlvii; revolt of Potidaea, etc.,
xlviii ; how was the tribute fixed ? xlviii.

Inventories of sacred treasure, xlix ; repayment of debts to Athen^
and the other deities, liii; Kirchhoff's attempt to estimate the ex¬
penditure of Athens in 431-428 by a comparison of Thuc. ii. 13,
iii. 17, 19, Ivii; ordinary scale of expenditure, Hx ; interest on expend¬
iture from sacred treasure in 433-423, Ixi; was there also a secular