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