Literary Record Details

Author: ARISTOTELES et CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM Phil.

Opus: Athenian Constitution
Reference: Arist.Ath.Pol.53.5

Period: Late Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: historiography
Object:
Gender: m
Context: office

Greek Text: τὸν δὲ τελευταῖον τῶν ἐπωνύμων λαβόντες οἱ τετταράκοντα διανέμουσιν αὐτοῖς τὰς διαίτας καὶ ἐπικληροῦσιν ἃς ἕκαστος διαιτήσει: καὶ ἀναγκαῖον ἃς ἂν ἕκαστος λάχῃ διαίτας ἐκδιαιτᾶν.

English Text: The Forty take the last one of the Name-heroes and distribute the arbitration-cases among those of his year and assign by lot the cases that each is to arbitrate upon; and it is compulsory for each of them to complete the arbitration of the cases allotted to him