The  most  ancient  officials  of  finance  were,  as  the  meaning  of
their  name  indicates,  the  KuyXo.KperaL ;  their  business  originally,

1  Thuc.  vi.  8  ;  vii.  16.
2  This  is  conveyed  in  such  formulae  as  ir^/nTrros  avrS^,  rplros  aiirSs.
Cf.  Thuc.  i.  61  ;  ii.  79  ;  iii.  3,  19  ;  iv.  42.
2  He  is  called  d^Karos  avrSs. — Thuc.  i.  1 16  ;  ii.  13.
^  Such  power  (and  not  superiority  to  the  other  strategi)  is  intended  in  the
word  avTOKpdrup.  In  the  Sicilian  expedition — Thuc.  vi.  8,  26 — all  those
generals  were  ai/TOKpdropes.    Cf.  also  Thuc.  ii.  65,  and  Xen.  Hell.  i.  iv.  20.
^  See  below,  Book  VITT.,  chapter  ii.
