The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

elected by
open vote; and each commands his own tribesmen and appoints
captains of companies (Lochagi). There are also two Hipparchs,
elected by open vote from the whole mass of the citizens, who
command the cavalry, each taking five tribes. They have the same
powers as the Generals have in respect of the infantry, and their
appointments are also subject to confirmation. There are also ten
Phylarchs, elected by open vote, one from each tribe, to command
the cavalry, as the Taxiarchs do the infantry. There is also a
Hipparch for Lemnos, elected by open vote, who has charge of the
cavalry in Lemnos. There is also a treasurer of the Paralus, and
another of the Ammonias, similarly elected.
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    Of the magistrates elected by lot, in former times some
including the nine Archons, were elected out of the tribe as a
whole, while others, namely those who are now elected in the
Theseum, were apportioned among the demes; but since the demes used
to sell the elections, these magistrates too are now elected from
the whole tribe, except the members of the Council and the guards
of the dockyards, who are still left to the demes.
    Pay is received for the following services. First the members of
the Assembly receive a drachma for the ordinary meetings, and nine
obols for the ‘sovereign’ meeting. Then the jurors at the
law-courts receive three obols; and the members of the Council five
obols. They Prytanes receive an allowance of an obol for their
maintenance. The nine Archons receive four obols apiece for
maintenance, and also keep a herald and a flute-player; and the
Archon for Salamis receives a drachma a day. The Commissioners for
Games dine in the Prytaneum during the month of Hecatombaeon in
which the Panathenaic festival takes place, from the fourteenth day
onwards. The Amphictyonic deputies to Delos receive a drachma a day
from the exchequer of Delos. Also all magistrates sent to Samos,
Scyros, Lemnos, or Imbros receive an allowance for their
maintenance. The military offices may be held any number of times,
but none of the others more than once, except the membership of the
Council, which may be held twice.
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    The juries for the law-courts are chosen by lot by the nine
Archons, each for their own tribe, and by the clerk to the
Thesmothetae for the tenth. There are ten entrances into the
courts, one for each tribe; twenty rooms in which the lots are
drawn, two for each tribe; a hundred chests, ten for each tribe;
other chests, in which are placed the tickets of the jurors on whom
the lot falls; and two vases. Further, staves, equal in number to
the jurors required, are placed by the side of each entrance; and
counters are put into one vase, equal in number to the staves.
These are inscribed with letters of the alphabet beginning with the
eleventh (lambda), equal in number to the courts which require to
be filled. All persons above thirty years of age are qualified to
serve as jurors, provided they are not debtors to the state and
have not lost their civil rights. If any unqualified person serves
as juror, an information is laid against him, and he is brought
before the court; and, if he is convicted, the jurors assess the
punishment or fine which they consider him to deserve. If he is
condemned to a money fine, he must be imprisoned until he has paid
up both the original debt, on account of which the information was
laid against him, and also the fine which the court as imposed upon
him. Each juror has his ticket of boxwood, on which is inscribed
his name, with the name of his father and his deme, and one of the
letters of the alphabet up to kappa; for the jurors in their
several tribes are divided into ten sections, with approximately an
equal number in each letter. When the Thesmothetes has decided by
lot which letters are required to attend at the courts, the servant
puts up above each court the letter which has been assigned to it
by the lot.
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    The ten chests above mentioned are placed in front of the
entrance used by each tribe, and are inscribed with the letters of
the alphabet from alpha to kappa. The jurors cast in their tickets,
each into the chest on which is inscribed the letter which is on
his ticket; then the servant shakes them all up, and the Archon
draws one ticket from each chest. The individual so selected is
called the Ticket-hanger (Empectes), and his function is to hang up
the tickets out of his chest on the bar which bears the same letter
as that on the chest. He is chosen by lot, lest, if