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tiated offered to the goddess a piece of money, and cial award, as in the case of a declared state
received in return a measure of salt and a phallus. debtor. If no opposition were offered, the apoIn the mysteries themselves, they received instruc- graphle would attain its object, under the care of
tions'v -'p TeX,'9 E otxIp. A second or new the magistrate to whose office it was brought;
Paphos had been built, according to tradition, after otherwise, a public action arose, which is also dethe Trojan war, by the Arcadian Agapenor; and, signated by the same title.
according to Strabo (xiv. p. 683), men and women In a cause of the first kind, which is said
from other towns of the island assembled at New in some cases to have also borne the name 7rdeOv
Paphos, and went in solemn procession to Old EXEL a' xppara teal 7rloa -rauTa eY'&, the claimant
Paphos, a distance of sixty stadia; and the name against the state had merely to prove his title to
of the priest of Aphrodite, &y-IcWP (Hesych. s. ev.), the property; and with this we must class the
seems to have originated in his heading this pro- case of a person that impugned the apograpli,
cession. Aphrodite was worshipped in most towns whereby the substance of another was, or was proof Cyprus, and in other parts of Greece, such as posed to be, confiscated, on the ground that he had
Cythera, Sparta, Thebes, Elis, &c.; and though a loan by way of mortgage or other recognised
no Aphrodisia are mentioned in these places, we security upon a portion of it; or that the part in
have no reason to doubt their existence; we find question did not in any way belong to the state
them expressly mentioned at Corinth and Athens, debtor, or person so mulcted. This kind of oppowhere they were chiefly celebrated by the numerous sition to the. apogscraphl is illustrated in the speech
prostitutes. (Athen. xiii. pp. 574, 579, xiv. p. 659.) of Demosthenes against Nicostratus, in which we
Another great festival of Aphrodite and Adonis in learn that Apollodorus had instituted an apograpvhe
Sestus is mentioned by Musaeus. (IHero and against Arethusius, for non-payment of a penalty
Leand. 42.) [L. S.] incurred in a former action. Upon this, NicoAPLUSTRE. [NAvIs.] stratus attacks the description of the property, and
APOCLE'TI (a&roIcXTolt). [AETOLICUM FOE- maintains that three slaves were wrongly set down
Dus, p. 27. b.]. in it as belonging to Arethusius, for they were in
APODECTAE (anroe'Krat), the Receivers,were fact his own.
public officers at Athens, who were introduced by In the second case, the defence could of course
Cleisthenes in the place of the ancient colacretae only proceed u)pon the alleged illegality of the former
(KcwXaKmpe'ra). They were ten in number, one for penalty; and of this we have an instance in the
each tribe, and their duty was to receive all the speech of Lysias, for the soldier. There Polyaenus
ordinary taxes and distribute them to the separate had been codidemned by the generals to pay a fine
branches of the administration, which were enti- for a breach of discipline; and, as he did not pay
tied to them. They accordingly kept lists of it within the appointed time, an apographe to the
persons indebted to the state, made entries of all amount of the fine was directed against him,
moneys that were paid in, and erased the names of which he opposes, on the ground that the fine was
the debtors from the lists. They had the power illegal. The aograps-lie might be instituted by an
to decide causes connected with the subjects under Athenian citizen; but if there vwere no private
their management; though if the matters in dis- prosecutor, it became the duty of the demarchi to
pute were of importance, they were obliged to proceed with it officially. Sometimes, however,
bring them for decision into the ordinary courts. extraordinary commissioners, as the cvAXo'yets and
(Pollux,viii. 97; Etymolog. Mag. H-arpocrat. Suid. (irlTatf, were appointed for the purpose. The
Hesych. s. v.; Aristot. Pol. vi. 8; Dem. c. Timiocr. suits instituted against the apoograpl/l belonged to
pp. 750, 762; Aesch. c. Ctes. p. 375; Bbickh, Publ. the jurisdiction of the Eleven, and for a while to
Econ. o'f Atlieis, p. 159, 2nd ed.) that of the Syndici. (Ilpbs TO7S cVVtAfKOIS adroAPOGRAPHE' (a&roypap)l), is literally "a Tpaqaes &croTypdqwv, Lycurg. quoted by Harpolist, or register;" but in the language of the Attic cration..) The further conduct of these causes
courts, the terms a&ro'ypad-eLv and a7ro'ypdeEoOcai would, of' course, in a great measure depend upon
had three separate applications:-.'Airoypaqe the claimant being, or not being, in possession
was used in reference to an accusation in public of the proscribed property. In the first case the
matters, more particularly when there were several droypaqowY, in the second the claimant, would
defendants; the denunciation, the bill of indict- appear in the character of a plaintiff. In a case
ment, and enumeration of the accused, would in like that of Nicostratus above cited, the claimant
this case be termed apogralpAeS, and differ but little, would be obliged to deposit a certain sum, which
if at all, from the ordinary yrcapes. (Andoc. de he forfeited if he lost his cause (7rapamcraeoA\);
Mydt. 13; Antiph. de Clioemiut. 783.) 2. It im- in all, he would probably be obliged to pay the
plied the making of a solemn protest or assertion costs or court fees (7rpvrave7sa) upon the same conbefore a magistrate, to the intent that it might be tingency.
preserved by him, till it was required to be given A private citizen, who prosecuted an indiviin evidence. (Dem. in Phaen. 1040.) 3. It was dual by means of &,roeypacp, forfeited a thousand
a specification of property, said to belong to the drachmae, if he failed to obtain the votes of onestate, but actually in the possession of a private fifth of the dicasts, and reimbursed the defendant
person; which specification was made, with a view his prytaneia upon acquittal. In the former case,
to the confiscation of such property to the state. too, he would probably incur a modified atimia,
(Lys. de AristopA. Bonis.) i. e. a restriction from bringing such actions for
The last case only requires a more extended the future. [J. S. M.]
illustration. There would be two occasions upon APOKERUXIS (&aroK7puts), implies the
which it would occur; first, when a person held method by which a father could at Athens dissolve
pualic property without purchase, as an intruder; the legal connection between himself and his son;
and secondly, when the substance of an individual but as it is not mentioned by any of the orators
was liable to confiscation in consequence of a judi- or the older writers, it could rarely have taken
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