Literary Record Details

Author: ARISTOTELES et CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM Phil.

Opus: Athenian Constitution
Reference: Arist.Ath.Pol.66.1

Period: Late Classical

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

Greek Text: τίθεται ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν δικαστηρίων β# κληρωτήρια καὶ κύβοι χαλκοῖ, ἐν οἷς ἐπιγέγραπται τὰ χρώματα τῶν δικαστηρίων, καὶ ἕτεροι κύβοι, ἐν οἷς ἐστιν τῶν ἀρχῶν τὰ ὀνόματα ἐπιγεγραμμένα. λαχόντες δὲ τῶν θεσμοθετῶν δύο χωρὶς ἑκατέρων τοὺς κύβους ἐμβάλλουσιν, ὁ μὲν τὰ χρώματα εἰς τὸ ἓν κληρωτήριον, ὁ δὲ τῶν ἀρχῶν τὰ ὀνόματα εἰς τὸ ἕτερον. ἣ δ᾽ ἂν πρώτη λάχῃ τῶν ἀρχῶν, αὕ̣τ̣η ἀναγορεύεται ὑπὸ τοῦ κήρυκος ὅτι χρήσεται τῷ πρώτῳ λα̣χόντι δικαστηρίῳ, ἡ δὲ δευτέρα τῷ δευτέρῳ, καὶ ὡσαύτως τοῖς ἄλλοις, ἵνα μηδεμία προειδῇ τίνι αὐτῶν χρήσεται, ἀλλ᾽ οἷον ἂν λάχῃ ἑκάστη, τούτῳ χρήσηται.

English Text: two ballot-boxes are placed in the first of the courts, and copper dice with the colors of the courts painted on them, and other dice with the names of the offices written on them. And two of the Lawgivers are chosen by lot, and throw the two sets of dice in separately, one throwing in the colored dice into one ballot-box and the other the names of the offices into the other. And to whichever of the offices the lot falls first, it is proclaimed by the herald that this will use the first court allotted