The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

Assembly, indictments for illegal proposals, or for
proposing a law which is contrary to the interests of the state,
complaints against Proedri or their president for their conduct in
office, and the accounts presented by the generals. All indictments
also come before them in which a deposit has to be made by the
prosecutor, namely, indictments for concealment of foreign origin,
for corrupt evasion of foreign origin (when a man escapes the
disqualification by bribery), for blackmailing accusations,
bribery, false entry of another as a state debtor, false testimony
to the service of a summons, conspiracy to enter a man as a state
debtor, corrupt removal from the list of debtors, and adultery.
They also bring up the examinations of all magistrates, and the
rejections by the demes and the condemnations by the Council.
Moreover they bring up certain private suits in cases of
merchandise and mines, or where a slave has slandered a free man.
It is they also who cast lots to assign the courts to the various
magistrates, whether for private or public cases. They ratify
commercial treaties, and bring up the cases which arise out of such
treaties; and they also bring up cases of perjury from the
Areopagus. The casting of lots for the jurors is conducted by all
the nine Archons, with the clerk to the Thesmothetae as the tenth,
each performing the duty for his own tribe. Such are the duties of
the nine Archons.
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    There are also ten Commissioners of Games (Athlothetae), elected
by lot, one from each tribe. These officers, after passing an
examination, serve for four years; and they manage the Panathenaic
procession, the contest in music and that in gymnastic, and the
horse-race; they also provide the robe of Athena and, in
conjunction with the Council, the vases, and they present the oil
to the athletes. This oil is collected from the sacred olives. The
Archon requisitions it from the owners of the farms on which the
sacred olives grow, at the rate of three-quarters of a pint from
each plant. Formerly the state used to sell the fruit itself, and
if any one dug up or broke down one of the sacred olives, he was
tried by the Council of Areopagus, and if he was condemned, the
penalty was death. Since, however, the oil has been paid by the
owner of the farm, the procedure has lapsed, though the law
remains; and the oil is a state charge upon the property instead of
being taken from the individual plants. When, then, the Archon has
collected the oil for his year of office, he hands it over to the
Treasurers to preserve in the Acropolis, and he may not take his
seat in the Areopagus until he has paid over to the Treasurers the
full amount. The Treasurers keep it in the Acropolis until the
Panathenaea, when they measure it out to the Commissioners of
Games, and they again to the victorious competitors. The prizes for
the victors in the musical contest consist of silver and gold, for
the victors in manly vigour, of shields, and for the victors in the
gymnastic contest and the horse-race, of oil.
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    All officers connected with military service are elected by open
vote. In the first place, ten Generals (Strategi), who were
formerly elected one from each tribe, but now are chosen from the
whole mass of citizens. Their duties are assigned to them by open
vote; one is appointed to command the heavy infantry, and leads
them if they go out to war; one to the defence of the country, who
remains on the defensive, and fights if there is war within the
borders of the country; two to Piraeus, one of whom is assigned to
Munichia, and one to the south shore, and these have charge of the
defence of the Piraeus; and one to superintend the symmories, who
nominates the trierarchs arranges exchanges of properties for them,
and brings up actions to decide on rival claims in connexion with
them. The rest are dispatched to whatever business may be on hand
at the moment. The appointment of these officers is submitted for
confirmation in each prytany, when the question is put whether they
are considered to be doing their duty. If any officer is rejected
on this vote, he is tried in the lawcourt, and if he is found
guilty the people decide what punishment or fine shall be inflicted
on him; but if he is acquitted he resumes his office. The Generals
have full power, when on active service, to arrest any one for
insubordination, or to cashier him publicly, or to inflict a fine;
the latter is, however, unusual.
    There are also ten Taxiarchs, one from each tribe,