<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0027.tlg001.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="part" n="Narrative"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0027.tlg001.perseus-eng2" n="27"><p rend="align(indent)">And now, gentlemen, what followed? After the various informations had been laid, the question of rewards arose: for Cleonymus’ decree had offered one thousand drachmae, and Peisander’s ten.<note resp="Loeb" anchored="true">The question of offering rewards for information probably arose when the commission of inquiry was being appointed. After Cleonymus’ thousand drachmae was found to be producing insufficient results, it would be supplemented by the much more substantial sum proposed by Peisander. For Peisander see p.366, note.</note> Conflicting claims were made by the informers I have mentioned,<note resp="Loeb" anchored="true">i.e. Andromachus, Teucrus, Agariste, and Lydus. Pythonicus’ claim was based on the fact that he had been originally responsible for bringing the matter to the notice of the Assembly. Androcles is here mentioned for the first time. From <bibl n="Thuc. 8.65">Thuc. 8.65</bibl> and <bibl n="Plut. Alc. 19">Plut. Alc. 19</bibl> it is clear that he played an important part in the investigations; probably it was through his agency that Teucrus, the first informer to approach the <foreign xml:lang="grc">βουλή</foreign>, was induced to come forward. <foreign xml:lang="grc">ὑπὲρ τῆς βουλῆς</foreign> here cannot possibly mean <q rend="double">on the Council’s behalf</q>; there was no queston of rewarding the <foreign xml:lang="grc">βουλευταί</foreign>. It is more like <q rend="double">in view of the Council’s part in the affair</q>; i.e. Androcles maintained that the Council had been of more importance throughout than the Assembly, and that therefore, as the person responsible for the first disclosures made to it, he himself deserved the principal reward.</note> by Pythonicus, on the ground that he had first brought the matter before the Assembly, and by Androcles, who urged the part played by the Council. </p></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>