E´CLOGEIS
E´CLOGEIS (
ἐκλογεῖς),
Athenian collectors of taxes, were of two kinds. 1. Ordinary, who collected
the
εἰσφορὰ under the
ἡγεμόνες τῶν συμμοριῶν (Westermann, ap.
Pauly, s. v.
ἐκλογεῖς, Harpocrat., Suid.):
called also
ἐκλέγοντες, Dem.
c.
Timocr. p. 713.40; 745.144. This was an
ἀρχὴ κληρωτή for which no property qualification was
required (Dem.
c. Androt. p. 608.48) [
EISPHORA]. 2. Extraordinary,
appointed when the tribute (
φόρος) of the
allies fell into arrears, to supplement the action of the Hellenotamiae, its
regular administrators : these were chosen (
ᾑρέθησαν) from the richer classes only, as an
ἀρχὴ χειροτονητή (Antiph.
fr. 52, Blass; Lys.
fr. 5 Bekk.=9 Scheibe
[both these in Harpocration]; Bekk.
Anecd. 245, 33;
C.
I. A. 1.38). This inscription dates from B.C. 446, and is
thought to allude to their first appointment; before that year only slight
traces of the enforcement of arrears occur. The Athenian power on land had
just been curtailed by the loss of Boeotia (447); and they made up for it by
a harsher exercise of their maritime empire. (Boeckh,
P. E.
p. 156=
Sthh.3 1.190; U. Köhler,
Urkunden und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des delisch-attischen
Bundes, pp. 132-3; Gilbert,
Staatsalterth.
1.398.)
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