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501 43| to the vote whether it is desirable to hold a vote of ostracism 502 18| was betraying them, and desiring to do something before they 503 52| per cent., or where a man desirous of setting up business in 504 53| men of military age are despatched on service, a notice is 505 6 | place, indicated by the desperate condition the country; moreover, 506 11| might have made himself a despot by attaching himself to 507 36| people and destroy their despotic power. Accordingly they 508 36| leader of the people and destroy their despotic power. Accordingly 509 35| on these lines, and they destroyed the professional accusers 510 56| party charges another with destroying his own property through 511 54| the law-courts. If they detect any magistrate in embezzlement, 512 18| leave their arms, and then detected those who were carrying 513 27| him of thereby causing a deterioration in the character of the 514 53| that year, casting lots to determine which arbitrations each 515 57| priestly rites; and he also determines all controversies concerning 516 28| the end generally come to detest those who have beguiled 517 35| persons who, to the great detriment of the democracy, had attached 518 23| Council of Areopagus once more developed strength and assumed the 519 41| consisting in a slight deviation from absolute monarchy. 520 14| primitive and simple-minded device. He first spread abroad 521 41| Prytanes had tried many devices in vain in order to induce 522 23| whom the latter appeared to devote himself to the conduct of 523 19| Lo, what heroes to death didst send,~Nobly born and great 524 50| the corpses of those who die in the streets, for which 525 3 | Whichever way it may be, the difference in date is small; but that 526 21| intermixing the members of the different tribes, and so securing 527 14| later Megacles, being in difficulties in a party struggle, again 528 16| Tax-free Farm". He saw a man digging and working at a very stony 529 3 | importance, through the dignity conferred by these later 530 12| now they raise an angry din,~And they glare askance 531 62| Commissioners for Games dine in the Prytaneum during 532 56| house, and that of the great Dionysia-the latter in conjunction with 533 3 | marriage of the King’s wife to Dionysus takes place there. The Archon 534 44| results of the votings, and direct the proceedings generally. 535 42| guardian, together with a director, chosen from the general 536 11| alienated through their disappointment at the condition of things 537 33| Aristocrates and Theramenes, who disapproved of the action of the Four 538 37| Thereupon the Thirty decided to disarm the bulk of the population 539 15| ruler there. He effected the disarmament of the people in the following 540 33| than at any of the earlier disasters, since they drew far more 541 13| and justification of their discontent in the abolition of debts, 542 2 | but what they were also discontented with every other feature 543 22| the mines of Maroneia were discovered, and the state made a profit 544 23| opportunity afforded by the discredit brought upon the Lacedaemonians 545 31| might act according to their discretion. They must, however, observe 546 69| allowed to each party for the discussion of the damages. Finally, 547 13| continual state of internal disorder. Some found the cause and 548 18| Hipparchus was organizing its dispatch) they saw one of the persons 549 43| Prytanes, and the bearers of dispatches also deliver them to the 550 42| year, after giving a public display of their military evolutions, 551 69| or solid, may be plainly displayed and easily counted. Then 552 59| when a man escapes the disqualification by bribery), for blackmailing 553 13| to poverty; others were dissatisfied with the political constitution, 554 13| Archon on account of their dissensions, and again four years later 555 20| this, he next attempted to dissolve the Council, and to set 556 68| stand in the court, in distinct spots so that no one may 557 10| the odd three minas were distributed among the staters and the 558 23| provided a donation of money, distributing eight drachmas to each member 559 19| persons, Hippias became a distrusted and an embittered man. About 560 22| had been obliterated by disuse during the period of the 561 21| have to use the existing division into trittyes; for the four 562 57| the writ runs against "the doer of the deed". The King and 563 43| whether Athenian or aliens domiciled in Athens, are received, 564 24| them to retain whatever dominion they then possessed. They 565 46| cannot receive the customary donation-that being normally given to 566 50| into the street, or having doors which open outwards; they 567 48| and he is bound to pay double the amount of the deficiency, 568 9 | probable, and the reason no doubt was that it is impossible 569 52| these: refusal to pay up a dowry where a party is bound to 570 34| this effect was proposed by Dracontides of Aphidna.~ 571 50| barriers across them, or making drain-pipes in mid-air with a discharge 572 12| to good, with even hand~Drawing straight justice for the 573 12| these blessings e’en in dreams:-~While greater men, the 574 12| Fondly then and vainly dreamt they; now they raise an 575 14| the deme of Collytus), he dressed her in a garb resembling 576 20| Athens, and persuaded him to "drive out the pollution", a plea 577 45| nickname of "the man from the drum-head"; and the people deprived 578 34| appeared in the Assembly drunk and wearing his breastplate, 579 60| fruit itself, and if any one dug up or broke down one of 580 3 | never of more than annual duration.~Such, then, is the relative 581 12| eyes upon these blessings e’en in dreams:-~While greater 582 26| lax, in consequence of the eager rivalry of candidates for 583 25| way in which the people earned their livelihood. The supremacy 584 12| the Olympian gods,~Dark Earth, thou best canst witness, 585 37| demolition of the fort of Eetioneia, or have acted in any way 586 19| allowed them to remove their effects. This took place in the 587 11| set off on a journey to Egypt, with the combined objects 588 23| donation of money, distributing eight drachmas to each member 589 41| its maritime empire. The eighth was the establishment of 590 52| five Introducers of Cases (Eisagogeis), elected by lot, one for 591 26| was made in the method of election of the nine Archons, except 592 54| Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; 593 7 | as Thetes, and were not eligible for any office. Hence it 594 | elsewhere 595 54| detect any magistrate in embezzlement, the jury condemn him for 596 19| became a distrusted and an embittered man. About three years after 597 1 | They were tried] by a court empanelled from among the noble families, 598 64| called the Ticket-hanger (Empectes), and his function is to 599 66| throws them into another empty chest. He then draws out 600 12| eyes upon these blessings e’en in dreams:-~While greater 601 6 | that, when he was about to enact the Seisachtheia, he communicated 602 8 | reference to such persons, enacting that any one who, in a time 603 18| befell the house. He became enamoured of Harmodius, and, since 604 53| law-courts, the Arbitrators enclose the evidence, the pleadings, 605 53| Arbitrator, and have been enclosed in the urns.~The Arbitrators 606 47| the leases of the sacred enclosures, written on whitened tablets. 607 40| this man escape they would encourage others to imitate him, while 608 12| Every one among them deeming endless wealth would here be found.~ 609 28| illegality and was its constant enemy.~ 610 19| Pythia kept continually enjoining on the Lacedaemonians who 611 39| self-government, and with the free enjoyment of their own personal property. 612 11| the cost of incurring the enmity of both, to be the saviour 613 49| by the Commissioners of Enrolment (Catalogeis), ten in number, 614 45| to be its members for the ensuing year, and likewise the nine 615 33| the direction of affairs entirely in their own hands, and 616 63| the tenth. There are ten entrances into the courts, one for 617 59| accusations, bribery, false entry of another as a state debtor, 618 58| Artemis the huntress and to Enyalius, and arranges the contest 619 42| enrolled him. When the youths (Ephebi) have passed this examination, 620 57| Areopagus, are tried by the Ephetae on whom the lot falls. The 621 3 | Polemarcheum, but after Epilycus, during his term of office 622 1 | view of this expiation, Epimenides the Cretan performed a purification 623 48| opposite the statue of the eponymous hero of his tribe; and if 624 31| examination of military equipments, and thereon elect ten persons, 625 12| not for me, the people ne’er had set~Their eyes upon 626 59| foreign origin (when a man escapes the disqualification by 627 11| the upper class had been estranged from him on account of his 628 39| effected in the archonship of Eucleides, on the following terms. 629 45| immediate expectation of death, Eumelides of Alopece rescued him from 630 13| ten Archons, five from the Eupatridae, three from the Agroeci, 631 48| one Examiner of Accounts (Euthunus) by lot from each tribe, 632 34| Lacedaemonians proposed to evacuate Decelea and make peace on 633 1 | their race banished for evermore. In view of this expiation, 634 17| he spent in exile. It is evident from this that the story 635 5 | and an overweening mind", evidently meaning that it was through 636 35| and those mischievous and evil-minded persons who, to the great 637 18| his character that all the evils arose which befell the house. 638 42| display of their military evolutions, on the occasion when the 639 48| full power by the laws to exact these payments and to inflict 640 40| to learn by. And this was exactly what happened; for after 641 56| children under their charge, he exacts it from them. Such are the 642 12| he says, received this exalted post,~He had not kept the 643 59| They also bring up the examinations of all magistrates, and 644 40| executed him they would make an example for all to learn by. And 645 53| amount at issue does not exceed ten drachmas, but anything 646 16| without giving himself any exceptional privileges. Once he was 647 62| a drachma a day from the exchequer of Delos. Also all magistrates 648 3 | the Polemarch have, but exclusively in those of later origin. 649 42| order that they may have no excuse for requiring leave of absence; 650 56| for them, and reports any excuses that are tendered, if any 651 19| his brother, and of the execution and banishment of a large 652 45| consigned Lysimachus to the executioner, and he was sitting in the 653 41| its own return by its own exertions. This was the eleventh change 654 26| and the upper classes were exhausted. Consequently in most matters 655 18| and in addition to other exhibitions of rage he finally prevented 656 14| to do the same. Solon’s exhortations, however, proved fruitless, 657 5 | in these poems, where he exhorts the wealthy not to be grasping.~ 658 41| established the constitution which exists at the present day. Pythodorus 659 45| sitting in the immediate expectation of death, Eumelides of Alopece 660 11| The mass of the people had expected him to make a complete redistribution 661 25| of the Areopagus, but was expecting to be tried before it on 662 22| be more powerful than was expedient. The first person unconnected 663 26| were men of no military experience, who owed their position 664 1 | evermore. In view of this expiation, Epimenides the Cretan performed 665 56| his exemption has not yet expired, or that he is not of the 666 9 | not drawn up in simple and explicit terms (but like the one 667 21| new citizens might not be exposed by the habitual use of family 668 11| there was no call for him to expound the laws personally, but 669 8 | turn up, he made a law with express reference to such persons, 670 29| have full powers, to the extent even of making treaties 671 16| be scattered over all the face of the country, and secondly 672 8 | one who, in a time civil factions, did not take up arms with 673 56| them; and if the guardians fail to provide the necessary 674 48| public clerk. If any one fails to pay his instalment, a 675 19| attempts. Among their other failures, they fortified a post in 676 51| They see that sellers use fair weights and measures.~Formerly 677 19| drinking song:~Ah! Lipsydrium, faithless friend!~Lo, what heroes 678 36| however, seeing the city thus falling into ruin, was displeased 679 18| others say that he told no falsehood, but was betraying the actual 680 28| him, not, as his critics falsely assert, overthrowing every 681 18| privy to the plot talking familiarly with him. Thinking that 682 47| lists of the taxes which are farmed out for the year, entering 683 52| cases for or against the farmers of taxes. Those in which 684 5 | Indeed, he constantly fastens the blame of the conflict 685 42| this examination, their fathers meet by their tribes, and 686 44| of office the omens are favourable. There has, however, to 687 17| Pisistratus was the youthful favourite of Solon and commanded in 688 49| considered to have shown favouritism in its decisions. The Council 689 35| whom they had reason to fear, while they also wished 690 5 | the poem he says that he fears" the love of wealth and 691 2 | discontented with every other feature of their lot; for, to speak 692 65| name and pay them their fee.~ 693 3 | some of the kings proving feeble in war; for it was on this 694 66| jurors shall receive their fees, and of the places where 695 6 | fellow-citizens beneath his feet and establish himself as 696 28| Nicias, who subsequently fell in Sicily, appeared as leader 697 42| appoint on oath three of their fellow tribesmen, over forty years 698 6 | within his power to put his fellow-citizens beneath his feet and establish 699 27| estate was guarded by no fences, so that any one who liked 700 54| fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly the Panathenaea; and no 701 47| the statue of Athena, the figures of Victory, and all the 702 30| and due expenditure of the finances, and generally with regard 703 15| accordingly, when he had finished the rest of what he had 704 38| death. This gave them a firm hold on the government, 705 35| so soon as they had got a firmer hold on the city, they spared 706 14| but before his power was firmly established, the adherents 707 49| inspects those who appear to be fit for service as scouts, and 708 48| such amount as seems to him fitting, and gives in the record 709 51| the law requires them to fix the standard weight.~There 710 28| majority, with their eyes fixed only on the interests of 711 12| eyes~Burns with hostile flames upon me. Yet therein no 712 20| resisted, the populace flocked together, and Cleomenes 713 14| as others say a Thracian flower-seller of the deme of Collytus), 714 50| duty is to see that female flute-and harp-and lute-players are 715 62| also keep a herald and a flute-player; and the Archon for Salamis 716 59| magistrates; for the latter must follow the arrangement which the 717 20| let Cleomenes and all his followers de art, while they summoned 718 12| cheer,~Naught beyond in folly ventured. Never to my soul 719 18| disposition, amorous, and fond of literature (it was he 720 12| hid a cruel mind within.~Fondly then and vainly dreamt they; 721 56| to provide the necessary food for the children under their 722 47| Solon-which is still in force-they must be Pentacosiomedimni, 723 13| two months, until he was forcibly expelled from his office. 724 55| 55~All the foregoing magistrates are elected 725 57| or a resident alien or a foreigner, are heard by the court 726 5 | reputation Solon was one of the foremost men of the day, but in wealth 727 20| yet again, boy, to Cedon; forget not this duty to do,~If 728 16| humane and mild and ready to forgive those who offended, but, 729 23| supremacy by virtue of any formal decree, but because it had 730 37| in the demolition of the fort of Eetioneia, or have acted 731 23| adviser. The rebuilding of the fortifications they conducted in combination, 732 19| their other failures, they fortified a post in Attica, Lipsydrium, 733 19| city insecure, he set about fortifying Munichia, with the intention 734 42| spend their time in the forts. For these two years they 735 29| 29~So long as the fortune of the war continued even, 736 27| their own hands. Moreover, forty-eight years after the battle of 737 53| names to the tribes, and the forty-two of the years of service. 738 21| some from the persons who founded them, since some of the 739 56| until they reach the age of fourteen, and takes mortgages on 740 54| thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and fifthly 741 29| an oath that they would frame such measures as they thought 742 9 | attain ideal perfection when framing a law in general terms; 743 16| Pisistratus was so leased with his frank speech and his industry 744 35| restoring the constitution and freeing it from obscurities; as, 745 30| any special need for more frequent sittings. The casting of 746 21| redistributing the population in fresh combinations. Further, he 747 52| slander, cases arising out of friendly loans or partnerships, and 748 12| Crouched "neath a master's frown, I set them free.~Thus might 749 14| exhortations, however, proved fruitless, and Pisistratus assumed 750 38| and reconciliation to a fulfillment, in conjunction with the 751 12| justice lies.~All I promised, fully wrought I with the gods 752 49| this ends the list of the functions of that body.~ 753 58| arranges the contest at the funeral of those who have fallen 754 69| back their staves. Half a gallon of water is allowed to each 755 52| the prisoners in the state gaol. Thieves, kidnappers, and 756 24| Prytaneum, and orphans, and gaolers, since all these were supported 757 14| Collytus), he dressed her in a garb resembling that of the goddess 758 66| tribes shall respectively gather in the court for this purpose 759 22| ostracism must live between Geraestus and Scyllaeum, on pain of 760 68| the numeral 3 (because he gets three obols when he gives 761 27| possessions, he should make gifts to the people from their 762 50| anxious to hire the same girl, they cast lots and hire 763 28| the people with his cloak girt up short about him, whereas 764 12| raise an angry din,~And they glare askance in anger, and the 765 12| power, who in wealth were glorious and great,~I bethought me 766 12| be found.~And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind 767 12| But had another held the goad as~One in whose heart was 768 12| law had sold~For from his god-built land, an outcast slave,~ 769 14| garb resembling that of the goddess and brought her into the 770 16| progresses that, as the story goes, Pisistratus had his adventure 771 47| property of those who have gone into exile from the court 772 17| of a man of Argos, named Gorgilus; she had previously been 773 17| this that the story is mere gossip which states that Pisistratus 774 12| With a tyrant’s force to govern, nor to see the good and 775 37| sent Callibius as military governor with about seven hundred 776 56| claims to a wardship; for granting inspection of property to 777 54| treaties of alliance and grants of consulship and citizenship. 778 5 | exhorts the wealthy not to be grasping.~But ye who have store of 779 1 | bodies were cast out of their graves and their race banished 780 14| had distinguished himself greatly in the war with Megara. 781 12| granted naught to their greed;~While those who were rich 782 12| whose heart was guile and greediness,~He had not kept the people 783 23| in high repute among the Greeks, so that the command by 784 58| assign to each tribe the group which comes to it by lot; 785 23| growing gradually with the growth of the democracy; but after 786 12| reviles both parties for their grumblings in the times that followed:~ 787 24| heavy-armed troops, twenty guard-ships, and other ships which collected 788 27| provision; while his estate was guarded by no fences, so that any 789 23| Lacedaemonians by Pausanias, guided the public policy in the 790 12| as~One in whose heart was guile and greediness,~He had not 791 57| hear the cases in which the guilt rests on inanimate objects 792 25| took refuge in suppliant guise at the altar. Every one 793 15| the region of the Thermaic gulf; and thence he passed to 794 40| they are rather in the habit of making a general redistribution 795 21| might not be exposed by the habitual use of family names, but 796 12| And made thee free, who hadst been slave of yore.~And 797 28| succeeded by Theramenes son of Hagnon as leader of the one party, 798 38| charge under an oligarchy and handed in their accounts under 799 64| and his function is to hang up the tickets out of his 800 53| civil rights, unless he happens to be holding some other 801 28| abuse on the Bema, and to harangue the people with his cloak 802 11| people coming to him and harassing him concerning his laws, 803 15| chambers of the Theseum hard by, and came and made a 804 2 | champion of the people. But the hardest and bitterest part of the 805 17| of Salamis. It will not harmonize with their respective ages, 806 50| see that female flute-and harp-and lute-players are not hired 807 19| place in the archonship of Harpactides, after they had held the 808 19| way. The Athenian exiles, headed by the Alcmeonidae, could 809 18| age, and was violent and headstrong in his behaviour. It was 810 57| open air. Whenever the King hears a case he takes off his 811 16| nature fitted him to win the hearts of both. Moreover, the laws 812 24| there were in addition 2,500 heavy-armed troops, twenty guard-ships, 813 62| Prytaneum during the month of Hecatombaeon in which the Panathenaic 814 2 | known as Pelatae and also as Hectemori, because they cultivated 815 26| matters of administration less heed was paid to the laws than 816 14| place in the archonship of Hegesias, five years after the first 817 30| the Hellenic Treasurers (Hellenotamiae), the Treasurers of the 818 14| house, saying that he had helped his country so far as lay 819 45| was acquitted, receiving henceforth the nickname of "the man 820 54| same place. To these the Hephaestia has now been added, in the 821 54| the Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, 822 41| of one obol a day, which Heracleides of Clazomenae, nicknamed " 823 62| maintenance, and also keep a herald and a flute-player; and 824 | Herein 825 22| system, in the archonship of Hermocreon, they first imposed upon 826 48| statue of the eponymous hero of his tribe; and if any 827 14| named Phye (according to Herodotus, of the deme of Paeania, 828 12| with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.~Fondly 829 30| Amphictyonic Registrar (Hieromnemon), the Taxiarchs, the Hipparchs, 830 26| Zeugitae as well as from the higher classes. The first Archon 831 38| consisting of men of the highest repute. Under their administration, 832 13| there were the men of the Highlands, at the head of whom was 833 7 | son of Diphilus, Athenion hight,~Raised from the Thetes 834 35| they took down from the hill of Areopagus the laws of 835 22| same year Megacles son of Hippocrates, of the deme of Alopece, 836 22| wished to get rid of him. Hitherto, however, he had escaped; 837 54| Commissioners of Roads (Hodopoei), who, with an assigned 838 12| is the rein, nor violence holdeth the sway;~For indulgence 839 43| every day, unless it is a holiday, the Assembly four times 840 11| property, and the upper class hoped he would restore everything 841 19| with a force of a thousand horsemen. Then, being roused to anger 842 49| Council also inspects the horses belonging to the state. 843 6 | preferred instead to incur the hostility of both parties by placing 844 12| and their cravings knew no hound,~Every one among them deeming 845 12| bay like wolf among the hounds.~ ~And again he reviles 846 48| sit at the ordinary market hours, each opposite the statue 847 55| an ancestral Apollo and a household Zeus, and where their sanctuaries 848 16| was he in every respect humane and mild and ready to forgive 849 58| sacrifices to Artemis the huntress and to Enyalius, and arranges 850 16| adventure with the man of Hymettus, who was cultivating the 851 22| however, in the archonship of Hypsichides, all the ostracized persons 852 35| masters of the city, they ignored all the resolutions which 853 11| nor yet to be an object of ill will to every one by remaining 854 49| of the manufacture of the images of Victory and the prizes 855 62| Samos, Scyros, Lemnos, or Imbros receive an allowance for 856 40| would encourage others to imitate him, while if they executed 857 38| the contrary, Rhinon was immediately elected general on account 858 8 | having enacted a process of impeachment to deal with such offenders. 859 66| not all crowd together and impede one another.~ 860 19| finally she succeeded in impelling the Spartans to that step, 861 24| treat their allies in a more imperious fashion, with the exception 862 57| sacrifices. Indictments for impiety come before him, or any 863 18| the latter might commit an impious act, and at the same time 864 7 | evidence beside the man, implying that this was what was meant 865 57| which the guilt rests on inanimate objects and the lower animal.~ 866 19| Spartans being continually incited by oracles to overthrow 867 7 | by the possession of an income of a certain number of measures. 868 36| because they were doing two inconsistent things, since they made 869 25| man with a reputation for incorruptibility and public virtue, who had 870 6 | he preferred instead to incur the hostility of both parties 871 11| preferred, though at the cost of incurring the enmity of both, to be 872 57| admits of reconcilliation incurs a further charge of killing 873 9 | deliberately made the laws indefinite, in order that the final 874 39| and possessing full and independent powers of self-government, 875 8 | the citizens from sheer indifference accepted whatever might 876 41| devices in vain in order to induce the populace to come and 877 18| other persons; and, having induced Hippias to give him his 878 12| violence holdeth the sway;~For indulgence breedeth a child, the presumption 879 16| his frank speech and his industry that he granted him exemption 880 9 | wards of state), disputes inevitably occurred, and the courts 881 49| The Council also examines infirm paupers; for there is a 882 52| The Eleven also bring up informations laid against magistrates 883 25| while at the same time he informed the Areopagites that he 884 56| honour of Asclepius, when the initiated keep house, and that of 885 14| by representing that his injuries had been inflicted on him 886 53| duty. Any one who suffers injustice at the hands of the Arbitrator 887 18| themselves, by putting to death innocent men who were their own friends; 888 56| he, after a preliminary inquiry, brings up before the lawcourts, 889 35| limitations in cases of insanity, old age, and undue female 890 7 | of Diphilus, bearing this inscription:~The son of Diphilus, Athenion 891 19| his position in the city insecure, he set about fortifying 892 16| person into the country to inspect it and to settle disputes 893 56| a wardship; for granting inspection of property to which another 894 27| Pericles was also the first to institute pay for service in the law-courts, 895 9 | being done; thirdly, the institution of the appeal to the jurycourts; 896 42| trainers, with subordinate instructors, who teach them to fight 897 61| service, to arrest any one for insubordination, or to cashier him publicly, 898 57| unintentional homicide, or of intent to kill, or of killing a 899 9 | for we must judge of his intentions, not from the actual results 900 19| cavalry when they attempted to intercept his march into Attica, shut 901 16| former he won by his social intercourse with them, the latter by 902 21| coast, and ten from the interior. These he called trittyes; 903 21| four, with the object of intermixing the members of the different 904 34| Assembly was compelled by sheer intimidation to pass a vote establishing 905 52| Thesmothetae.~There are also five Introducers of Cases (Eisagogeis), elected 906 57| the lot falls. The King introduces them, and the hearing is 907 29| the committee should also investigate the ancient laws enacted 908 27| partly voluntarily and partly involuntarily, determined to assume the 909 67| five thousand drachmas is involved, and three for the second 910 23| defensive alliance with the Ionians, on which occasion they 911 17| two by his Argive consort, Iophon and Hegesistratus, who was 912 23| they cast the masses of iron into the sea.~ 913 22| losing their civic rights irrevocably.~ 914 3 | view to determining the issues between litigants. Accordingly 915 56| enters office, he begins by issuing a proclamation that whatever 916 42| armour, to use the bow and javelin, and to discharge a catapult. 917 49| brands with a wheel on the jaw, and the horse so marked 918 31| whenever they desired it, of joining in the deliberations of 919 11| Athens, he set off on a journey to Egypt, with the combined 920 9 | general terms; for we must judge of his intentions, not from 921 41| and this appears to be a judicious change, since small bodies 922 18| while Thessalus was much junior in age, and was violent 923 9 | institution of the appeal to the jurycourts; and it is to this last, 924 24| maintained. There were 6,000 jurymen, 1,600 bowmen, 1,200 Knights, 925 5 | upper class. The strife was keen, and for a long time the 926 44| hold it twice. He keeps the keys of the sanctuaries in which 927 52| the state gaol. Thieves, kidnappers, and pickpockets are brought 928 57| homicide, or of intent to kill, or of killing a slave or 929 57| adulterer in the act, or kills another by mistake in battle, 930 16| respect was his popular and kindly disposition. In all things 931 47| ninth prytany. Further, the King-archon brings before the Council 932 3 | on account of some of the kings proving feeble in war; for 933 3 | Codrus retired from the kingship in return for the prerogatives 934 12| plunder, and their cravings knew no hound,~Every one among 935 66| procedure is that no one may know which court he will have, 936 16| The man spoke without knowing who his questioner was; 937 48| Council whether any one knows of any malpractice in reference 938 16| people to help them in their labours, so that they might make 939 19| expelled by Cleomenes, king of Lacedaemon, in consequence of the Spartans 940 27| Any member of the deme of Laciadae could go every day to Cimon’ 941 63| beginning with the eleventh (lambda), equal in number to the 942 12| milk.~But I stood forth a landmark in the midst,~And barred 943 60| farm, the procedure has lapsed, though the law remains; 944 35| prison, and three hundred "lash-bearers" as attendants, with the 945 11| his country and the ideal lawgiver.~ 946 26| state became more and more lax, in consequence of the eager 947 56| property to which another party lays claim; for appointing oneself 948 61| the heavy infantry, and leads them if they go out to war; 949 24| of the leadership of the league, and to quit the country 950 40| make an example for all to learn by. And this was exactly 951 34| in a very short time they learnt their mistake. The next 952 47| the public contracts. They lease the mines and taxes, in 953 | least 954 24| to protect their empire, leaving their constitutions untouched, 955 17| two sons by his first and legitimate wife, Hippias and Hipparchus, 956 57| Next, he superintends the Lenaean Dionysia, which consists 957 22| money, but he bade them lend it to the hundred richest 958 22| Athenians, with the usual leniency of the democracy, allowed 959 22| from those to whom it was lent. On these terms he received 960 18| killing Hipparchus near the Leocoreum while he was engaged in 961 24| exception of the Chians, Lesbians, and Samians. These they 962 47| tablets the name of the lessee and the amount paid. They 963 6 | the head of affairs, Solon liberated the people once and for 964 68| and the brazen urn has a lid pierced so as to take only 965 12| Yet therein no justice lies.~All I promised, fully wrought 966 3 | which has continued to be a life-magistracy to the present day.~ 967 12| askance in anger, and the light within their eyes~Burns 968 27| fences, so that any one who liked might help himself to the 969 45| for the ensuing year, and likewise the nine Archons. Formerly 970 35| abolishing the existing limitations in cases of insanity, old 971 35| then, they acted on these lines, and they destroyed the 972 65| certain colour painted on the lintel of the entrance. Accordingly 973 56| mind; for appointment of liquidators, where a party refuses to 974 18| disposition, amorous, and fond of literature (it was he who invited to 975 16| he burdened the people as little as possible with his government, 976 19| Lipsydrium, faithless friend!~Lo, what heroes to death didst 977 12| through debt’s oppressive load,~Speaking no more the dear 978 6 | thereby the people had their loads removed from them. In connexion 979 51| that the bakers sell their loaves at a price proportionate 980 61| appoints captains of companies (Lochagi). There are also two Hipparchs, 981 15| purpose collected the arms and locked them up in the chambers 982 48| also elects ten Auditors (Logistae) by lot from its own members, 983 21| since some of the areas no longer corresponded to localities 984 21| arose the saying "Do not look at the tribes", addressed 985 18| Harmodius was a person of loose life. Thereupon, in a frenzy 986 22| and Scyllaeum, on pain of losing their civic rights irrevocably.~ 987 26| populace suffered great losses by war. The soldiers for 988 64| the rooms assigned for the lot-drawing. Then the Archon casts in 989 5 | says that he fears" the love of wealth and an overweening 990 5 | and still it and keep it low:~Let the heart that is great 991 5 | within you he trained a lowlier way;~Ye shall not have all 992 43| since the reckoning is by lunar years. The Prytanes for 993 50| female flute-and harp-and lute-players are not hired at more than 994 18| confederates. But while they were lying in wait for Hippias in the 995 28| of the one party, and the lyre-maker Cleophon of the people. 996 26| later, in the archonship of Lysicrates, thirty "local justices", 997 27| was quite unequal to this magnificence and accordingly he took 998 27| regular public services magnificently, but also maintained a large 999 45| rescued him from its hands, maintaining that no citizen ought to 1000 33| Hundred and committed the management of affairs to the Five Thousand,