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[3] The proposal to introduce payment for attendance at the Assembly was on the first occasion rejected; but as people were not attending the Assembly but the presidents kept contriving a number of devices to get the multitude to attend for the passing of the resolution by show of hands, first Agyrrhius introduced a fee of an obol, and after him Heracleides of Clazomenae, surnamed1 King, two obols, and Agyrrhius again three obols.
1 Or 'nicknamed' (as was Peisistratus in Eupolis's comedy Demos); but perhaps his family claimed royal descent in Asia Minor.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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