Literary Record Details

Author: ARISTOTELES et CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM Phil.

Opus: Athenian Constitution
Reference: Arist.Ath.Pol.27.4

Period: Late Classical

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

Greek Text: he instituted payment for the jury-courts; the result of which according to some critics was their deterioration, because ordinary persons always took more care than the respectable to cast lots for the duty

English Text: κατεσκεύασε μισθοφορὰν τοῖς δικαστηρίοις: ἀφ᾽ ὧν αἰτιῶνταί τινες χείρω γενέσθαι, κληρουμένων ἐπιμελῶς ἀεὶ μᾶλλον τῶν τυχόντων ἢ τῶν ἐπιεικῶν ἀνθρώπων