A prosecution[1] in which the defendants are officials, (prosecuted for) not giving an account[2] of the sums of money administered during the tenure of their office.
*)alogi/ou di/kh: h(\n feu/gousin oi( a)/rxontes lo/gon ou) dido/ntes tw=n th=s a)rxh=s dioikhma/twn.
Same entry in
Photius and other lexica. Latte on
Hesychius s.v. suggests that the source (or prompt) might be
Eupolis fr. 349 Kock, now 377 K.-A.:
kai\ ga\r ai)sxro\n a)logi/ou 'st' o)flei=n, "for it is shameful to be convicted of lack of accounting".
[1] The word used here is dike, a general one for any kind of Athenian lawsuit. In fact the procedure was a "public" lawsuit, a graphe, which any concerned citizen could bring. See generally on the graphe alogiou A.R.W. Harrison,
The Law of Athens, vol.2 (Oxford 1971, reprinted London & Indianapolis 1998) 28-30.
[2] In the technical sense: submitting income and expenditure records for scrutiny.
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