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δασμολογεῖ ‘levies imposts’, an invidious mode of describing the collection of the σύνταξις, as the tribute of the allies (φόρος) was euphemistically called under the revived Athenian Confederacy. Cp. Panegyr. § 132, χρὴ...τοιούτοις ἔργοις ἐπιχειρεῖν πολὺ μᾶλλον ἢ τοὺς νησιώτας δασμολογεῖν. So δασμοφορεῖν, Aesch. Pers. 586. οἷς δ᾽ οὐδὲν ὑπῆρχεν ἀγαθόν ‘while men who began with no property — these, on the other hand [δέ in apodosis], have been raised from a low estate to wealth, through our folly’: a common topic of accusation against the demagogues, and often probably a false one. Cp. Lysias, or. XIX. § 48, speaking of the demagogue Cleophon (condemned to death by the oligarchs in 405 B.C.), προσεδοκᾶτο χρήματα πάμπολλα ἔχειν ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς, ἀποθανόντος δ᾽ αὐτοῦ οὐδαμοῦ δῆλα τὰ χρήματα, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ προσήκοντες καὶ οἱ κηδεσταί, παῤ οἷς κατέλιπεν (his legatees), ὁμολογουμένως πένητές εἰσι.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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