348 HISTORY OF GREECE. To meet in part the pecuniary wants of the moment, a courage- ous effort was made by the senator Apollodorus. He moved a decree in the Senate, that it should be submitted to the vote of the public assembly, whether the surplus of revenue, over and above the ordinary and permanent peace establishment of the city, should be paid to the Theoric Fund for the various religious fes- 1 i vals or should be devoted to the pay, outfit, and transport of Loldiers for the actual war. The Senate approved the motion of Apollodorus, and adopted a (probouleuma) preliminary resolution authorizing him to submit it to the public assembly. Under such authority, Apollodorus made the motion in the assembly, v here also he was fully successful. The assembly (without a singlf dis- sentient voice, we are told) passed a decree enjoining that the surplus of revenue should under the actual pressure of war be devoted to the pay and other wants of soldiers. Notwithstanding such unanimity, however, a citizen named Stephanus impeached both the decree and its mover on the score of illegality, under the Graphe Paranomon. Apollodorus was brought before the Dikas- tery, and there found guilty ; mainly (according to his friend and relative the prosecutor of Neaera) through suborned witnesses and false allegations foreign to the substance of the impeachment. When the verdict of guilty had been pronounced, SUphanus as .accuser assessed the measure of punishment at the Urge fine of fifteen talents, refusing to listen to any supplications from the friends of Apollodorus, when they entreated him to ti?ime a lower sum. The Dikasts however, more lenient than Sijphanus, were satisfied to adopt the measure of fine assessed by A jx>Jlodorus upon himself one talent which he actually paid.' 1 There can hardly be a stronger evidence both of the urgency and poverty of the moment, than the fact, that both Senate an<l people passed this decree of Apollodorus. That fact there is n: room for doubting. But the additional statement that there way not a single dissentient, and that every one, both at the time and afterwards, always pronounced the motion to have been an ex cellent one 2 is probably an exaggeration. For it is not U b 1 Demosthcn. cont. Ncacr. p 1346, 1347.
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