199 Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 No. 20, lines 25 _sqq._; E. S. Roberts and E. A. Gardner, _Introduction to Greek Epigraphy_, ii. (Cambridge, 1905) No. 9, lines 25 _sqq._, κελευέτω δὲ καί ὁ ἱεροφάντης καὶ ὁ δᾳδοῦχος μυστηρίοις ἀπάρχεσθαι τοὺς Ἔλληνας τοῦ καρποῦ κατὰ τὰ πάτρια καὶ τὴν μαντείαν τὴν ἐγ Δελφῶν. By coupling μυστηρίοις with ἀπάρχεσθαι instead of with κελεύετω, Miss J. E. Harrison understands the offering instead of the exhortation to have been made at the mysteries (_Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, Second Edition, p. 155, “Let the Hierophant and the Torchbearer command that at the mysteries the Hellenes should offer first-fruits of their crops,” etc.). This interpretation is no doubt grammatically permissible, but the context seems to plead strongly, if not to be absolutely decisive, in favour of the other. It is to be observed that the exhortation was addressed not to the Athenians and their allies (who were compelled to make the offering) but only to the other Greeks, who might make it or not as they pleased; and the amount of such voluntary contributions was probably small compared to that of the compulsory contributions, as to the date of which nothing is said. That the proclamation to the Greeks in general was an exhortation (κελευέτω), not a command, is clearly shewn by the words of the decree a few lines lower down, where commissioners are directed to go to all Greek states exhorting but not commanding them to offer the first-fruits (ἐκείνοις δὲ μὴ ἐπιτάττοντας, κελεύοντας δὲ ἀπάρχεσθαι ἐὰν βούλωνται κατὰ τὰ πάτρια καὶ τὴν μαντείαν ἐγ Δελφῶν). The Athenians could not command free and independent states to make such offerings, still less could they prescribe the exact date when the offerings were to be made. All that they could and did do was, taking advantage of the great assembly of Greeks from all quarters at the mysteries, to invite or exhort, by the mouth of the great priestly functionaries, the foreigners to contribute. 200 August Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen im Altertum_ (Leipsic, 1898), pp. 192 _sqq._ M46 The Festival of the Threshing-floor (_Haloa_) at Eleusis. 201 Eustathius on Homer, _Iliad_, ix. 534, p. 772; Im. Bekker, _Anecdota Graeca_, i. 384 _sq._, _s.v._ Ἁλῶα. Compare O. Rubensohn, _Die Mysterienheiligtümer in Eleusis und Samothrake_ (Berlin, 1892), p. 116. 202 Eustathius on Homer, _Iliad_, ix. 534, p. 772; Im. Bekker, _Anecdota Graeca_, i. 384 _sq._, _s.v._ Ἁλῶα. _ 203 Scholia in Lucianum_, ed. H. Rabe (Leipsic, 1906), pp. 279 _sq._ (scholium on _Dialog. Meretr._ vii. 4).