Agyrrhius

Agyrrhius (Greek: Ἀγύρριος) was a native of Collytus in Attica,^[1] whom Andocides ironically calls "the noble and the good" (τὸν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν) after being in prison many years for embezzlement of public money.^[2] He obtained around 395 BC the restoration of the Theorica, and also tripled the pay for attending the assembly, though he reduced the allowance previously given to the comic writers.^[3] By this expenditure of the public revenue Agyrrhius became so popular that he was appointed general (strategos) in 389 BC.^[4]

Notes

1. Smith, William (1867), "Agyrrhius", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 83
2. Andocides, De Mysteriis (1885), p. 65, ed. Reiske
3. Smith, after Harpocration, s.v. Θεωρικὰ, Ἀγύῤῥιος; Suda, s.v. ἐκκλησιαστικὸν ; Scholiast ad Aristoph. Eccl. 102; Dem. c. Timocr. 742
4. Smith, after Xenophon, Hellenica iv. 8. § 31; Diodorus Siculus, xiv. 99; Philipp August Böckh, The Public Economy of Athens (1852), pp. 223, 224, 316, 2nd ed. Engl. transl.; Georg Friedrich Schömann, De Comitiis Atheniensium (1819), p. 65, &c.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.