The Athenian Constitution   

temples, nor is it even lawful for him to enter the market-place;
but on the occasion of his trial he enters the temple and makes his
defence. If the actual offender is unknown, the writ runs
against 'the
doer of the deed'. The King and the tribe-kings also hear
the cases in
which the guilt rests on inanimate objects and the lower animal.
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The Polemarch performs the sacrifices to Artemis the
huntress and to
Enyalius, and arranges the contest at the funeral of those who have
fallen in war, and makes offerings to the memory of Harmodius and
Aristogeiton. Only private actions come before him, namely those in
which resident aliens, both ordinary and privileged, and agents of
foreign states are concerned. It is his duty to receive these cases
and divide them into ten groups, and assign to each tribe the group
which comes to it by lot; after which the magistrates who introduce
cases for the tribe hand them over to the Arbitrators. The
Polemarch, however, brings up in person cases in which an alien is
charged with deserting his patron or neglecting to provide himself
with one, and also of inheritances and wards of state where
aliens are
concerned; and in fact, generally, whatever the Archon does for
citizens, the Polemarch does for aliens.

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The Thesmothetae in the first place have the power of
prescribing on
what days the lawcourts are to sit, and next of assigning them to
the several magistrates; for the latter must follow the arrangement
which the Thesmothetae assign. Moreover they introduce impeachments
before the Assembly, and bring up all votes for removal from office,
challenges of a magistrate's conduct before the 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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