<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg028.perseus-eng2" type="translation" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="5"><p>And to make matters worse, as soon as you had decreed that an inventory be made of the sums obtained from the cities, and that his fellow-commanders should sail home to undergo their audit, Ergocles said that there you were at your slander-mongering and hankering after the ancient laws,<note anchored="true" resp="Loeb">Which regulated the collection of tribute from the states subject to <placeName key="perseus,Athens">Athens</placeName> down to the time of the Peloponnesian War.</note> and he advised Thrasybulus to occupy <placeName key="perseus,Byzantium">Byzantium</placeName>, keep the ships, and marry Seuthes’<note anchored="true" resp="Loeb">A prince of <placeName key="tgn,7002756">Thrace</placeName> friendly to Thrasybulus.</note> daughter: </p></div></div></body></text></TEI>