[Meaning] the deposits of the prytaneia, which was [= were] a fee for the introduction of the case [sc. to a court]. Aristophanes [writes]: "[it was done] so that the filings might occur on the New Moon."[1]
Eunapius [writes]: "with the Romans pressing hard to this very end, [i.e.] to show them the hopelessness -- with a view to avoiding their total defeat, and capitulation in a disadvantageous treaty -- of their numbers and position and missiles and war-machines and the size of the rivers."[2]
The philosopher Krantor used to say that Theophrastus' theses were written with an oyster shell.[3]