Dialogue

 1 Repub|       when he had spoken of my lot as in all things blessed
 2 Repub|   brothers and sisters; if the lot favors them, and they receive
 3 Repub|   impostor, and had no part or lot in true philosophy. ~Yes,
 4 Repub|        are commonly elected by lot. ~Yes, he said, that is
 5 Repub|        him who draws the first lot have the first choice, and
 6 Repub|       each of them took up the lot which fell near him, all
 7 Repub|        and each as he took his lot perceived the number which
 8 Repub|        and saw what was in the lot, he began to beat his breast
 9 Repub|   theirs, and also because the lot was a chance, many of the
10 Repub| fortunate in the number of the lot, he might, as the messenger
11 Repub|   which obtained the twentieth lot chose the life of a lion,
12 Repub|      About the middle came the lot of Atalanta; she, seeing
13 Repub|      to make a choice, and his lot happened to be the last
14 Repub|     have done the same had his lot been first instead of last,