xl THUCYDIDES unchanged '. Thasos, for example, was raised from 3 to 30 talents, while the Thracian Chersonese was lowered from 18 talents to i talent, paid by Agora, one of the eight small cities of the Chersonese which occur on the lists; Ephesus from 7^ to 6 talents, Lebedus from 3 to i, Miletus from 10 to 5, Andros from 12 to 6, Colophon from 3 to i^, Phocaea from 3 to 2 ; and there is a net reduction, taking the two years 450 and 446 together, of over 30 talents in all on the cities of which the names and pay- ments have been preserved. We may conjecture that the rise in the Thasian tribute is due to the increased pro- ductiveness of the silver mines on the island or the restora- tion of those on the continent, or of territory there, see Thuc. i. loi. Such changes are also attributable to the rearrangement of the crwreAeiat, or groups of cities which contributed in common. The Sermylians (Scp/JuAtiJs) in 447 pay 3 talents, but the Sep/xuXt^s /<at cn-i'TcXets pay 5 talents in 445. The same cause obviously accounts in part for the extraordinary diminution of the tribute of the Thracian Chersonese, indicated above. Another cause which may have operated in this and similar cases is the occupation of certain districts by Athenian kXtjpovxol, in compensation for which the tribute paid by the original owners may have been reduced. The reduction of the tribute of Andros after 451 from 12 to 6 talents may be explained in this way. It must be remembered, however, that for the details of the establishment of KXr]povxLa.t we are often dependent upon late authors. Again, the average tribute between the years 446 and 440, for which years the lists are fairly complete, taken from 190 cities, amounts
- [In 450, about 83
cities pay the same as before. » >. 17 ,, are lowered. >> >) 4 ,, are raised. In 446, about loo „ pay the same. „ „ 31 ,, are lowered (8 of them may have been lowered in 450). are raised. (Busolt, Philologus, 41, pp. 704-713).]
