24.
When they had retreated, the Athenians posted guards to keep watch both by land and
sea,1 a precaution which they maintained throughout the war.
They then passed a decree reserving of the treasure in the Acropolis a thousand
talents2: this sum was set apart
and was not to be expended unless the enemy attacked the city with a fleet and they had
to defend it.
In any other case, he who brought forward or put to the vote a proposal to touch the
money was to be punished with death.
[2]
They also resolved to set apart yearly a hundred triremes, the finest of the year, and
to appoint trierarchs for them; these they were only to use at the same time with the
money, and in the same emergency.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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