68 Urdahl—Historical Survey of Fee Systems. 
the present. Her system of courts and their administration 
was at one time as efficient and elaborate as many in existence 
to-day. 
When the Athenian citizen brought his suit in a Greek court 
of justice, he was first required to deposit the pryta?iia, a sum 
of money corresponding to our docket fee, intended to cover the 
cost of the trial. In amount they were roughly graduated ac¬ 
cording to the size of the sum at stake. These prytania were 
originally intended as the compensation of the judges, but were 
subsequently paid to the state, which in turn remunerated the 
judges with salaries. 1 If either party wished to appeal the suit 
to a higher court, it was required to deposit the paracatabole , 
a fee similar to the prytania. Costs^ parastasia , were charged 
to the losing party, at the conclusion of a trial, and paid over 
to the winner. Besides this there were the epobelia , the nature 
of which is little known. During the Athenian supremacy 
court fees are reported to have been an important source of 
revenue, because all the allies had to take their suits to Athens 
for trial. 
Harbor fees were no less developed than the Greek court fees. 
As soon as a vessel entered one of the far famed harbors, on 
which the Greeks had expended so much care and money, it was 
met by the harbor master and required to pay its harbor fee.. 
If it happened to be a merchant vessel, it was required to pay 
another fee for permission to unload at the public wharves and 
a ware-house fee for depositing goods in ware-houses. 2 . 
Furthermore, we find a developed system of market fees 
charged in Athens for permission to enter the public market, 
for permit to occupy a stall, and for permits to foreigners to 
sell. Here also were charged license fees for permits to quack 
doctors, jugglers, performers of various kinds, and prostitutes. 
The protection of the merchant-men of Greece required a large 
fleet of warships, which were supported by Athens. For the 
protection thus afforded, the allies were expected to pay an¬ 
nually a fixed tribute into the Athenian treasury. 
The Athenian tributes had therefore, to some extent at least, 
1 Meier SchOnmann, Der Attische Process , II, 948. 
2 Boekh, Saatshaushalt der Athener. 
