Laws
   Book
 1 6    |       one registers before the magistrate the amount of his property,
 2 6    |   three minae. Every judge and magistrate shall be liable to give
 3 6    |      of magistrates, for every magistrate must also be a judge of
 4 6    |      judge, though he be not a magistrate, yet in certain respects
 5 6    |   respects is a very important magistrate on the day on which he is
 6 7    |       almost all our cities. A magistrate offers a public sacrifice,
 7 7    |      after which the presiding magistrate and his attendants shall
 8 8    |      for every day—so that one magistrate at least will sacrifice
 9 9    |        his own master, let the magistrate whom he first comes across
10 10   | according to the law; and if a magistrate, after receiving information,
11 11   |       matters the guardian and magistrate ought to apply his mind,
12 11   |       child, may be fined by a magistrate, or, if he be himself a
13 11   |         or, if he be himself a magistrate, the guardian may bring
14 11   |    shall pay or suffer. And if magistrate shall appear to have wronged
15 11   |   public assembly. And let the magistrate who presides on these occasions
16 12   |        no means easy to find a magistrate who excels other magistrates
17 12   |       magistracy, and what the magistrate ought to suffer or pay,
18 12   |        the examiners. And if a magistrate does not admit that he has


The Statesman
   Part
19 Intro|       is assigned to the chief magistrate, as at Athens to the King