¹ I suppose the decrees encouraging delation from Thasos (ML 83), first published by Pouilloux, J. in 1954 (Recherches sur l'histoire et les cultes de Thasos. I, ParisGoogle Scholar), was the last new evidence of comparable importance to appear. The scholarly world is still awaiting the publication of an inscription from Naupactus, which is apparently of at least equal significance, to judge by the tantalizing description by Mastrokostas in Arch. Delt. xix.2 (1964) 295.

² ‘Teos und Abdera im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.,’ Chiron xi (1981) 1–30 (hereinafter Herrmann).

³ ‘Zu dem neuen Text aus Teos’, ZPE xlvi (1982) 212–13.

⁴ ‘On the new text of Teos,’ ZPE xlvii (1982) 71–2.

⁵ McCabe, Donald F. and Plunkett, Mark A., Teos inscriptions (Princeton 1985) 262Google Scholar. This is the most recent published corpus of the inscriptions of Teos.

⁶ See Herrmann, 6, 14f. and plate 1. Herrmann's success in deciphering large parts of this inscription with virtually complete certainty was deservedly praised by Merkelbach, 212.

⁷ Ibid. Although Merkelbach omits the final nu of θετοῖσιν, it was clearly read by Herrmann, and we may henceforward silently correct this obvious slip.

⁸ Ol. 9.62.

⁹ Fr. 320.

¹⁰ I rely on an ‘all Greek’ search of the TLG material by Ibycus computer, which was kindly performed for me by my friend and colleague. Professor Wesley Smith.

¹¹ Harpocration, s.v. θέτης.

¹² For the verbal use from which the adjective comes, see LSJ s.v. τίθημι 3.b.

¹³ ‘I am a young city; yet I gave birth to the mother of my mother, when she was smitten by the foeman's fire’ (With acknowledgements to the translations of Sandys in the Loeb edition and of Radt, S. L., Pindars zweiter und sechster Paian [Amsterdam 1958] 22fGoogle Scholar.).

¹⁴ Op. cit. 33–9 (including information about earlier scholarship). It is regrettable that B. Isaac reverts to earlier interpretations in his recent book, The Greek settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian conquest (Leiden 1986) 90–2. Radt's refutation of these ideas was decisive.

¹⁵ ‘Teos in Pindar,’ Studies presented to Sterling Dow on his eightieth birthday (Durham, N.C. 1984) 149–52.

¹⁶ xiv 1.30 (C644).

¹⁷ Hdt. vi 8.1.

¹⁸ Kraay, C. M., Archaic and classical Greek coins (London 1976) 35. 152Google Scholar; plate 53, 893–5; plate 30. The downdating of the first coins of Abdera to c.530–500, described by Price, M. J. and Waggoner, N. as ‘inescapable’ (Archaic Creek coinage: The Asyut hoard [London 1975] 37Google Scholar), is based, as often in that book, on a misconception of the chronological significance of Egyptian bullion hoards; cf. what the authors themselves say, 117. And L. H. Jeffery's argument that the letters on the coins are surprisingly advanced for c.540 is clearly a priori (Local scripts of Archaic Greece [Oxford 1961] 364). So it is unfortunate that B. Isaac has accepted the downdating; op.cit. 87–9. Kraay was right to follow May, J. M. F., The coinage of Abdera (London 1966Google Scholar), who took account of some good hoard evidence (51–3), which is perfectly consistent with the earlier dating. May also understood (49) that, just as at Elea (Kraay, 170), colonists familiar with coinage would not delay long in introducing it in their new home.

¹⁹ Kraay, 35.

²⁰ Note the παντες of Hdt. i 168.

²¹ vi 32.

²² Ll. 31–4: ‘And if in helping one's friends a man ruggedly faces the enemy, peace is brought by toil which comes at the right time.’

²³ As Radt, 38. For the gnome, see his commentary, 39–42.

²⁴ ML 30; see SEG xxxi (1981) 984.

²⁵ See Hdt. v. 7–8; vi 43.4.

²⁶ Pp. 24, 29f.

²⁷ Hdt. locc. citt.; cf. also iv 137.2–138.

²⁸ It is relevant here that Herrmann would date the new inscription, on the basis of letter forms, to c.480–450, preferably closer to the lower terminus (p. 6).

²⁹ Colony and mother city in Ancient Greece, 2nd ed. (Chicago 1983), ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’, p. xxxi, no. 34.

³⁰ Who broke their oath: Hdt. 1.165.3.

³¹ Cf. Radt, 38.

³² Diod. xii 11.1–2.

θετοῖσιν

³³ See Herrmann's discussion, 26–30, though he does not hazard a political definition. N. Ehrhardt tentatively allows the possibility of sympo'liteia; see Milet und seine Kolonien (Frankfurt, Bern, New York, 1983) 234.

³⁴ I am very grateful to my friend and colleague Professor Martin Ostwald for kindly reading this note in draft and making several helpful suggestions for its improvement.