^{page 14 note 1} Published by Demarque, P. and Effenterre, H. van, Bull. Corr. Hell, 1937, 333 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 14 note 2} We shall have to deal with the meaning of this word ακρηστος later.

^{page 14 note 3} Journ. Hell. Stud, lvii (1937), 147 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 14 note 4} Griechische Volksbeschliisse, 25.

^{page 15 note 1} Riv. difilol. Ixvii (1939), 20 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 15 note 2} θε⋯ς ⋯ λωὂων, though it keeps the reading of the editors, does, of course, not make sense.

^{page 15 note 3} Cf.Oehler, , P-W. xi. 1497Google Scholar.

^{page 16 note 1} This explanation is considered probable in the Addenda of Liddell-Scott, sub ἅχρηστος.

^{page 16 note 2} Halliday, , Plutarch's Greek Questions, 50Google Scholar.

_{page 16 note 3} Heiliges Recht, 114. His view is accepted in the Addenda of Liddell-Scott, sub χρηστ⋯ς.

^{page 16 note 4} e.g. Code of Gortyn, i. 51 ff. ICret. ix. 1, 104 ff.; xvi. 1, 33; xix. 1, 15 f.

^{page 17 note 1} Oehler, loc. cit. 1496. For Dreros cf. the prescript of the well-known oath (ICret. ix. 1= Syll.³ 527) των Aιθαλεων κοσμιοντων (c. 200 B.C.) As to the date see Effenterre, H. van, Bull. Corr. Hell., 1937,327–32Google Scholar, cf. ibid. 31.

^{page 17 note 2} Cf. Cloché, ;, La restauration démocratique ⋯ Athenes (1915), 409Google Scholar.

^{page 17 note 3} Cf. van Effenterre, 336.

^{page 17 note 4} This βολ⋯, as the editors emphasize, is not mentioned elsewhere in our inscription, though it is proved to have been in existence in Dreros in later times by the oath (1.104) I have quoted above. In this oath the κοσμοι are responsible to the Council.

^{page 18 note 1} Cf. Ehrenbeig, , Hermes, lxviii (1933), 293 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 18 note 2} My thanks are due to Prof. Wade-Gery for his kind revision of this article.