Isaeus says "there is no Lysides in the Twelve Hundred".[1] The richest Athenians, those who performed liturgies, were twelve hundred [in number]. Other orators also mention them.[2]
*xi/lioi diako/sioi: *)isai=o/s fhsin: ou)dei\s *lusi/dhs e)sti\ tw=n diakosi/wn kai\ xili/wn. oi( plousiw/tatoi *)aqhnai/wn xi/lioi kai\ diako/sioi h)=san, oi(\ kai\ e)leitou/rgoun. mnhmoneu/ousi de\ au)tw=n kai\ e(/teroi r(h/tores.
Abridged from Harpokration s.v.
[1]
Isaeus fr. 74 Sauppe. The name "Lysides" is otherwise unattested in
Athens. Though it is admitted into vol.II of the
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (s.v. no.1), there must be a strong probability that it is an error for a commoner name, Lysiades or Lysitheides.
[2] So too, says Harpok., did
Philochorus (FGrH 328 F45). For 'other orators' on 1200 see e.g.
Isocrates 15.145. Harpok. goes on to cite other passages in oratory where the figure is 1000. See generally M.H. Hansen,
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of the Orators (Oxford [Blackwell] 1991, reprinted Bristol Classical Press 1999) 112-115.
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