LYCOPHRON, the son of Lycurgus of Butadae, requires that he may have
diet in the Prytaneum, according to a donation of the people to
Lycurgus. In the year of Anaxicrates,[29] in the sixth prytany,—which
was that of the tribe Antiochis,—Stratocles, the son of Euthydemus
of Diomea, proposed; that,—since Lycurgus, the son of Lycophron of
Butadae, had (as it were) an ingenerated good-will in him towards the
people of Athens; and since his ancestors Diomedes and Lycurgus lived
in honor and esteem of all people, and when they died were honored
for their virtue so far as to be buried at the public charge in the
Ceramicus; and since Lycurgus himself, while he had the management of
public affairs, was the author of many good and wholesome laws, and
was the city treasurer for twelve years together, during which time
there passed through his own hands eighteen thousand and nine hundred
talents, besides other great sums of money that he was entrusted with
by private citizens for the public good, to the sum of six hundred and
fifty talents; in all which concerns he behaved himself so justly,
that he was often crowned by the city for his fidelity; besides, being
chosen by the people to that purpose, he brought much money into the
Citadel, and provided ornaments, golden images of victory, and vessels
of gold and silver for the Goddess Minerva, and gold ornaments for a
hundred Canephoroe;[30] since, being commissary-general, he brought
into the stores a great number of arms and at least fifty thousand shot
of darts, and set out four hundred galleys, some new built, and others
only repaired; since, finding many buildings half finished, as the
dock-yards, the arsenal, and the theatre of Bacchus, he completed them;
and finished the Panathenaic race, and the court for public exercises
at the Lyceum, and adorned the city with many fair new buildings;
since, when Alexander, having conquered Asia, and assuming the empire
of all Greece, demanded Lycurgus as the principal man that confronted
and opposed him in his affairs, the people refused to deliver him up,
notwithstanding the terror inspired by Alexander; and since, being
often called to account for his management of affairs in so free a
city, which was wholly governed by the people, he never was found
faulty or corrupt in any particular;—that all people, therefore, may
know, not only that the people do highly esteem all such as act in
defence of their lïberties and rights while they live, but likewise
that they pay them honors after death, in the name of Good Fortune it
is decreed by the people, that such honors be paid to Lycurgus, the son
of Lycophron of Butadae, for his justice and magnanimity, as that a
statue of brass be erected in memory of him in any part of the market
which the laws do not prohibit; as likewise that there be provision for
diet in the Prytaneum for every eldest son of his progeny, successively
for ever. Also, that all his decrees be ratified, and engrossed by the
public notary, and engraven on pillars of stone, and set up in the
Citadel just by the gifts consecrated to Minerva; and that the city
treasurer shall deposit fifty drachms for the engraving of them, out of
the money set apart for such uses.