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Although I have borne all these expenses, and have faced daily peril in your service abroad, I have nevertheless made contributions—one of thirty minae and another of four thousand drachmae—to special levies. As soon as I returned to these shores, in the archonship of Alexias,405-404 B.C. I was producing games for the Promethea,Torch-races were held in honor of Prometheus. and won a victory after spending twelve minae.
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Then, later, I was appointed to produce a chorus of children, and spent more than fifteen minae. In the archonship of Eucleides404-403 B.C. I produced comic drama for Cephisodorus and won a victory, spending on it, with the dedication of the equipment, sixteen minae; and at the Little Panathenaea I produced a chorus of beardless pyrrhic dancers, and spent seven minae.
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I have won a victory with a warship in the race at Sunium,A promontory in the south of Attica, on which there was a temple of Poseidon. spending fifteen minae; and besides I had the conduct of sacred missions and ceremonial processionsIn this case, of maidens of the best families, who at the Panathenaea carried the sacred robe and other holy object as offerings to Athene. and other duties of the sort, for which my expenses have come to more than thirty minae. Of these sums that I have enumerated, had I chosen to limit my public services to the letter of the law, I should have spent not one quarter.
