From the psephism of Patrokleidês, passed six years subsequently,
after the battle of Ægospotamos, we learn that the names of such
among the Four Hundred as did not stay to take their trial,
were engraved on pillars distinct from those who were tried and
condemned either to fine or to various disabilities; Andokidês de
Mysteriis, sects. 75-78: Καὶ ὅσα ὀνόματα τῶν τετρακοσίων τινὸς
ἐγγέγραπται, ἢ ἄλλο τι περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ ὀλιγαρχίᾳ πραχθέντων ἔστι
που γεγραμμένον, ~πλὴν ὁπόσα ἐν στήλαις γέγραπται τῶν μὴ ἐνθάδε
μεινάντων~, etc. These last names, as the most criminal, were
excepted from the amnesty of Patrokleidês.
We here see that there were two categories among the condemned
Four Hundred: 1. Those who remained to stand the trial of
accountability, and were condemned either to a fine which they
could not pay, or to some positive disability. 2. Those who
did not remain to stand their trial, and were condemned _par
contumace_.
Along with the first category we find other names besides those
of the Four Hundred, found guilty as their partisans: ἄλλο
τι (ὄνομα) περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ ὀλιγαρχίᾳ πραχθέντων. Among these
partisans we may rank the soldiers mentioned a little before,
sect. 75: οἱ στρατιῶται, οἷς ὅτι ~ἐπέμειναν ἐπὶ τῶν τυράννων~ ἐν
τῇ πόλει, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἦν ἅπερ τοῖς ἄλλοις πολίταις, εἰπεῖν δ᾽ ἐν
τῷ δήμῳ οὐκ ἐξῆν αὐτοῖς οὐδὲ βουλεῦσαι, where the preposition ἐπὶ
seems to signify not simply contemporaneousness, but a sort of
intimate connection, like the phrase ἐπὶ προστάτου οἰκεῖν (see
Matthiæ, Gr. Gr. sect. 584; Kühner, Gr. Gr. sect. 611).
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