His best-known accomplishment was the establishment of pay for attendance at meetings of the Ekklesia (Assembly), in reward for which (apparently) he was elected general in 390/89.
[2] He was also named as one of the proposers of a decree to reduce payments to the comic poets.
[3] Harpokration gave him credit for establishing the theorika (festival fund) so the poor could attend theater performances,[4] but this attribution is contested by some scholars.
The orator Andokides accused him in 399 of conspiring to rig the bidding on tax collection contracts in 401 and 400 in order to defraud the city of its normal revenues.
[6] According to the orator Demosthenes, Agyrrhios later spent many years in jail "until he had repaid the money in his possession which was adjudged to be public property".