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When he had fixed the contributions that the Greeks were to pay, he returned poorer by exactly as much as he spent on his journey.1
1 In 478-477 B.C. Aristeides, because of his reputation for fairness, was chosen to determine the initial contribution which each member of the confederacy of Delos should make to the common cause. Cf. Plutarch's Life of Aristeides, chap. xxiv. (333 C); Aelian, Varia Historia, xi. 9.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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