The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

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Ticket-hanger were always the same person, he might tamper with the
results. There are five of these bars in each of the rooms assigned
for the lot-drawing. Then the Archon casts in the dice and thereby
chooses the jurors from each tribe, room by room. The dice are made
of brass, coloured black or white; and according to the number of
jurors required, so many white dice are put in, one for each five
tickets, while the remainder are black, in the same proportion. As
the Archon draws out the dice, the crier calls out the names of the
individuals chosen. The Ticket-hanger is included among those
selected. Each juror, as he is chosen and answers to his name,
draws a counter from the vase, and holding it out with the letter
uppermost shows it first to the presiding Archon; and he, when he
has seen it, throws the ticket of the juror into the chest on which
is inscribed the letter which is on the counter, so that the juror
must go into the court assigned to him by lot, and not into one
chosen by himself, and that it may be impossible for any one to
collect the jurors of his choice into any particular court. For
this purpose chests are placed near the Archon, as many in number
as there are courts to be filled that day, bearing the letters of
the courts on which the lot has fallen.
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    The juror thereupon, after showing his counter again to the
attendant, passes through the barrier into the court. The attendant
gives him a staff of the same colour as the court bearing the
letter which is on his counter, so as to ensure his going into the
court assigned to him by lot; since, if he were to go into any
other, he would be betrayed by the colour of his staff. Each court
has a certain colour painted on the lintel of the entrance.
Accordingly the juror, bearing his staff, enters the court which
has the same colour as his staff, and the same letter as his
counter. As he enters, he receives a voucher from the official to
whom this duty has been assigned by lot. So with their counters and
their staves the selected jurors take their seats in the court,
having thus completed the process of admission. The unsuccessful
candidates receive back their tickets from the Ticket-hangers. The
public servants carry the chests from each tribe, one to each
court, containing the names of the members of the tribe who are in
that court, and hand them over to the officials assigned to the
duty of giving back their tickets to the jurors in each court, so
that these officials may call them up by name and pay them their
fee.
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    When all the courts are full, two ballot boxes are placed in the
first court, and a number of brazen dice, bearing the colours of
the several courts, and other dice inscribed with the names of the
presiding magistrates. Then two of the Thesmothetae, selected by
lot, severally throw the dice with the colours into one box, and
those with the magistrates’ names into the other. The magistrate
whose name is first drawn is thereupon proclaimed by the crier as
assigned for duty in the court which is first drawn, and the second
in the second, and similarly with the rest. The object of this
procedure is that no one may know which court he will have, but
that each may take the court assigned to him by lot.
    When the jurors have come in, and have been assigned to their
respective courts, the presiding magistrate in each court draws one
ticket out of each chest (making ten in all, one out of each
tribe), and throws them into another empty chest. He then draws out
five of them, and assigns one to the superintendence of the
water-clock, and the other four to the telling of the votes. This
is to prevent any tampering beforehand with either the
superintendent of the clock or the tellers of the votes, and to
secure that there is no malpractice in these respects. The five who
have not been selected for these duties receive from them a
statement of the order in which the jurors shall receive their
fees, and of the places where the several tribes shall respectively
gather in the court for this purpose when their duties are
completed; the object being that the jurors may be broken up into
small groups for the reception of their pay, and not all crowd
together and impede one another.
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    These preliminaries being concluded, the cases are called on. If
it is a day for private cases, the private litigants are called.
Four cases are taken in each of the categories defined in the law,
and the litigants swear to confine their speeches to the point