Literary Record Details

Author: ARISTOTELES et CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM Phil.

Opus: Athenian Constitution
Reference: Arist.Ath.Pol.66.2

Period: Late Classical

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

Greek Text:  τοῖς γὰρ δικαστηρίοις χρῶματα ἐπιγέγραπται ἑκάστῳ ἐπὶ τῷ σφηκίσκῳ τῆς εἰσόδου. ὁ δὲ λαβὼν τὴν βακτηρίαν βαδίζει εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον τὸ ὁμόχρων μὲν τῇ βακτηρίᾳ, ἔχον δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ γράμμα ὅπερ ἐν τῇ βαλάνῳ. ἐπειδὰν δ᾽ εἰσέλθῃ, παραλαμβάνει σύμβολον δημοσίᾳ παρὰ τοῦ εἰληχότος ταύτην τὴν ἀρχήν.

English Text: for each of the courts has a color painted on the lintel of its entrance. He takes the staff and goes to the court of the same color as his staff and having the same letter as is on the acorn. And when he has come into it he receives a token publicly from the person appointed by lot to this office.