¹ Hesperia xvii (1948) 54–60; the inscription is preserved in the Epigraphical Museum in Athens (EM 8119). I should like to express my gratitude to Mrs. Dina Peppas-Delmousou, the Director of the Epigraphical Museum, for permission to study this document and to publish a photograph of it. I should like also to thank Mrs. Peppas-0Delmousou and Professors D. W. Bradeen, J. Breslin, C. W. J. Eliot, M. F. McGregor, and E. Vanderpool for their advice and criticism of earlier drafts of this paper, and to acknowledge the financial assistance granted me by the Canada Council that enabled me to spend the summer of 1971 in Athens.

² REG lxii (1949) 103–4 no. 42.

³ I know of no published inscription that is certainly by the same hand; however, there are points of similarity (especially delta, lambda, nu, omicron, and upsilon) in the hand of Face A of Gi i². 310, dated 10429/8 B.c.; closer is the first hand of IG i². 25, dated to 424/3 B.C. (alpha, beta, omicron, sigma, upsilon); less close are those of IG i², 111 and 112, both dated in 410/9 B.C., and of IG ii². 57, probably to be dated early in the fourth century B.C. A date in the 420s seems likeliest, though one closer to the end of the century is not impossible. The mixture of Attic and Ionic letter-forms in the heading is a peculiarity shared by the heading of SEG x. 108 (IG i². 144 + 155), probably dated in 416/15 B.c.; I shall discuss possible connections between that decree and IG i². 146 later in the course of this paper.

⁴ The name is a common one, during the fifth century and later, throughout Greece. In many cases its use as a personal name may have occurred first as a result of the desire to commemorate in a family the holding of the office of the proxenia by one of its members, after which it became a regular family name.

⁵ EA (1898) 12: [ἔδο]χσεν τε͂ι βολε͂ι κα[ὶ το̃ι δέμοι· ἀναγράφσαι πρό|χ]σενον το̃ν [Χαλκιδέον τὸν δεῖνα ἐστέλει λι|θ]ίνει ἐν πό[λει -----].

⁶ IG i². 146, lines 4–7:

⁷ Loc. cit.:

⁸ Op. cit., plate I.

⁹ For instance, while Ionic lambda is found in lines 1 and 2, Attic lambda is preferred in lines 4 and 6; epsilon is preferred to eta in line 4, and chi-sigma serves instead of xi in lines 4 and 5.

¹⁰ IG i². 143, line 5 provides a parallel for the phrase

¹¹ See Meritt, B. D., Wade-Gery, H. T., and McGregor, M. F., The Athenian Tribute-Lists i (Cambridge, Mass., 1939) 439.Google Scholar

¹² See Meritt, B. D., Hesperia xxi (1952) 344Google Scholar: in the fifth century B.C. there is no instance of the ethnic being used in honorifics without the article.

¹³ See Bechtel, F., Die historischen Personennamen der Griechen bis zur Kaiserzeit (Hildesheim, 1964; reprint of 1917 edition) 514 and 544Google Scholar; IG. i², 304; ii², 652.

¹⁴ Dr. D. M. Lewis informs me in correspondence that there are no instances from the fifth century of the phrase even where syntactical usage elsewhere in the decree might lead one to expect it, as here.

¹⁵ See IG i². 143, probably dated in the 440s.