Apophŏra
(
ἀποφορά). This term, which properly means
“produce or profit” of any kind, was used at Atheus to signify the profit
which accrued to masters from their slaves. It thus signified the sum which slaves paid to
their masters when they laboured on their own account; and the sum which masters received when
they let out their slaves on hire, either for the mines or for any other kind of labour; and
also the money which was paid by the state for the use of the slaves who served in the fleet
(
Ps. Xen. Rep. Ath. i. 11). The
term
apophora was also applied to the money which was paid by the
allied states to Sparta, for the purpose of carrying on the war against the Persians. When
Athens acquired the supremacy, these moneys were called
φόροι.