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ἀπάξουσι. The Athenians later required cleruchs and allies at Brea, Erythrae, and elsewhere to pay such contributions to the Panathenaea (Hicks 32, 41, 64).

Ἀθηναίῃ τῇ Πολιάδι. It seems clear that in inscriptions ‘Athena Polias’ may refer to the goddess of the Parthenon as well as to her of the Erechtheum, the title serving to distinguish the goddess who watches over the city and citadel of Athens from Athena Nike (Wyse, Cl. Rev. xii. 145-52; cf. also D'Ooge, Acropolis, 139-42, 385-9). But in literature Athena Polias naturally means the goddess of the Erechtheum, and here that meaning is made certain by the connexion with Erechtheus. On Erechtheus and his temple cf. viii. 55 n.

These offerings to the ‘lady’ and ‘king’ of the city of Athens from Epidaurus may be connected with the membership of both cities in the ancient Calaurian Amphictyony (Strabo, viii. 374).

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