§3.1Quos quo facilius repellerent, si forte bellum renovare conarentur, ad classes aedificandas exercitusque comparandos quantum pecuniae quaeque civitas daret, Aristides delectus est qui constitueret, eiusque arbitrio quadringena et sexagena talenta quotannis Delum sunt collata: id enim commune aerarium esse voluerunt.
In order to repel them more easily, if by chance they should attempt to renew the war, Aristides was chosen to determine how much money each state should give for building fleets and equipping armies; and by his decision, four hundred and sixty talents were contributed annually to Delos, for they wished that to be the common treasury.
quae omnis pecunia postero tempore Athenas translata est.
All this money was in later times transferred to Athens.
§3.2hic qua fuerit abstinentia, nullum est certius indicium quam quod, cum tantis rebus praefuisset, in tanta paupertate decessit, ut qui efferretur vix reliquerit.
Of how great integrity he was, there is no surer proof than that, although he had been in charge of such great affairs, he died in such poverty that he scarcely left enough wherewith he might be buried.
§3.3quo factum est ut filiae eius publice alerentur et de communi aerario dotibus datis collocarentur.
From which it came to pass that his daughters were supported at public expense and, with dowries given from the common treasury, were placed in marriage.
decessit autem fere post annum quartum quam Themistocles Athenis erat expulsus.
Moreover, he died about four years after Themistocles had been banished from Athens.