The Athenian Constitution   

doubled. A tenfold fine is not doubled.
The Clerk of the prytany, as he is called, is also elected by lot.
He has the charge of all public documents, and keeps the resolutions
which are passed by the Assembly, and checks the transcripts of all
other official papers and attends at the sessions of the Council.
Formerly he was elected by open vote, and the most distinguished and
trustworthy persons were elected to the post, as is known from the
fact that the name of this officer is appended on the pillars
recording treaties of alliance and grants of consulship and
citizenship. Now, however, he is elected by lot. There is, in
addition, a Clerk of the Laws, elected by lot, who attends at the
sessions of the Council; and he too checks the transcript of all the
laws. The Assembly also elects by open vote a clerk to read
documents to it and to the Council; but he has no other duty except
that of reading aloud.
The Assembly also elects by lot the Commissioners of Public
Worship (Hieropoei) known as the Commissioners for Sacrifices, who
offer the sacrifices appointed by oracle, and, in
conjunction with the
seers, take the auspices whenever there is occasion. It also
elects by
lot ten others, known as Annual Commissioners, who offer certain
sacrifices and administer all the quadrennial festivals except the
Panathenaea. There are the following quadrennial festivals:
first that
of Delos (where there is also a sexennial festival), secondly the
Brauronia, thirdly the Heracleia, fourthly the Eleusinia, and
fifthly the Panathenaea; and no two of these are celebrated in the
same place. To these the Hephaestia has now been added, in the
archonship of Cephisophon.
An Archon is also elected by lot for Salamis, and a Demarch for
Piraeus. These officers celebrate the Dionysia in these two places,
and appoint Choregi. In Salamis, moreover, the name of the Archon is
publicly recorded.

Part 55

All the foregoing magistrates are elected by lot, and their powers
are those which have been stated. To pass on to the nine Archons, as
they are called, the manner of their appointment from the earliest
times has been described already. At the present day six
Thesmothetae are elected by lot, together with their clerk, and in
addition to these an Archon, a King, and a Polemarch. One is elected
from each tribe. They are examined first of all by the
Council of Five
Hundred, with the exception of the clerk. The latter is examined
only in the lawcourt, like other magistrates (for all magistrates,
whether elected by lot or by open vote, are examined before entering
on their offices); but the nine Archons are examined both in the
Council and again in the law-court. Formerly no one could hold the
office if the Council rejected him, but now there is an appeal to
the law-court, which is the final authority in the matter of the
examination. When they are examined, they are asked, first, 'Who is
your father, and of what deme? who is your father's father? who is
your mother? who is your mother's father, and of what deme?' Then
the candidate is asked whether he possesses an ancestral Apollo and
a household Zeus, and where their sanctuaries are; next if he
possesses a family tomb, and where; then if he treats his parents
well, and pays his taxes, and has served on the required military
expeditions. When the examiner has put these questions, he proceeds,
'Call the witnesses to these facts'; and when the candidate has
produced his witnesses, he next asks, 'Does any one wish to make any
accusation against this man?' If an accuser appears, he gives the
parties an opportunity of making their accusation and defence, and