Literary Record Details

Author: PLATO Phil.

Opus: Politicus
Reference: Plat.Pol.299a

Period: Classical

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

Greek Text: δεήσει δικαστήρια καθίσαντας ἀνδρῶν, ἢ τῶν πλουσίων ἐκ προκρίσεως ἢ σύμπαντος αὖ τοῦ δήμου τοὺς λαχόντας

English Text: there will have to be sessions of courts in which the judges are chosen by lot either from a selected list of the rich or from the whole people