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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.
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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.
