Agyrrhius

Agyrrhius (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγύῤῥιος) was a native of Collytus in Attica,Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Agyrrhius | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 83 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0092.html ] whom Andocides ironically calls "the noble and the good" (polytonic|τὸν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν) after being in prison many years for embezzlement of public money. [Andocides, "De Mysteriis" p. 65, ed. Reiske] He obtained around 395 BC the restor­ation of the "Theorica", and also tripled the pay for attending the assembly, though he reduced the allowance previously given to the comic writers. [Harpocration, "s.v." polytonic|Θεωρικὰ, polytonic|Ἀγύῤῥιος] [Suda, "s.v." polytonic|ἐκκλησιαστικὸν] [Scholiast "ad Aristoph. Eccl." 102] [Dem. "c. Timocr." p. 742] By this expenditure of the public revenue Agyrrhius became so popular that he was appointed general ("strategos") in 389 BC. [Xenophon, "Hellenica" iv. 8. § 31] [Diodorus Siculus, xiv. 99] [Philipp August Böckh, "The Public Economy of Athens", pp. 223, 224, 316, &c., 2nd ed. Engl. transl.] [Georg Friedrich Schömann, "de Comitiis", p. 65, &c.]

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