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In regard to the counts of the accusation, gentlemen of the jury, you have been sufficiently informed; but I must ask your attention also for what has yet to be added, so that you may understand what kind of person I am before you give your verdict upon me. I was certified of ageBy the Council, in his eighteenth year: cf. Lys. 10.31. in the archonship of Theopompus: 411-410 B.C. appointed to produce tragic drama, I spent thirty minae and two months later, at the Thargelia,At the festival of Apollo and Artemis, held in the month Thargelion (May-June). two thousand drachmae, when I won a victory with a male chorus; and in the archonship of Glaucippus,410-409 B.C. at the Great Panathenaea, eight hundred drachmae on pyrrhicThe pyrrhic was a kind of war-dance. dancers.
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Besides, I won a victory with a male chorus at the Dionysia under the same archon, and spent on it, including the dedication of the tripod, five thousand drachmae; then, in the time of Diocles,409-408 B.C. three hundred on a cyclicA circular or dithyrambic chorus, usually associated with the worship of Dionysus. chorus at the Little Panathenaea. In the meantime, for seven years I equipped warships, at a cost of six talents.
