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.
Alogiou dikê: hên pheugousin hoi archontes logon ou didontes tôn tês archês dioikêmatôn.
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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