Laws concerning the Senate of five hundred, and the Popular Affembly. O one is to be twice an Epiftata. See Book I. Chap. Nov xviii. The Oath of the Senate I pafs by, as before treated of, Book I. Ch. xviii. The Establishment of Phocus runs, that Senators with the reft of the Athenians fhall keep the Feaft call'd Argia, as is ufual by the Cuftom of the Country, and that there fhall be an Adjournment of the Senate, and Vacations of leffer Courts for five Days, from the time in which the Protenthe begin to celebrate the Solemnity. See Book II. Chap, xx. 2η Απατέρια. The Crier fhall pray for the good Succefs of Affairs, and encourage all Men to lay out their Endeavours on that Design". See Book F. Chap. xvii. The Cryer fhall curfe him openly, with his Kindred, and Family, who fhall appear in the Court, and plead, or give his Voice for Lucre. Let the most ancient of the Athenians, having decently compos'd their Bodies, deliver their most prudent and wife Thoughts to the People; and after them, let fuch of the reft as will, do the like one by one, according to Seniority b. One of Solon's Laws. See Book I. Chap. xvii. and in the two next Laws. In every Affembly let there be one Tribe elected to prefide, and to look after the Laws . ་་ The Prytanes are not to authorize the People to vote twice for the fame thing! The Senate of five hundred may fine as far as five hundred Drathms ©. See Book I. Chap. xviii. and in the two following Laws. Let the Senate of five hundred build new Ships. Such as have not built any, fhall be refus'd the Donation of Crowns. This Senate fhall give an Account of their Adminiftration, and they who have executed their Offices well, fhall be rewarded with Crowns. N -Laws which concern Magiftrates. ONE fhall be Magiftrates but they, who have competent Eftates. One of Solon's Laws. See Book I. Chap. xi, and in the following. The Election of Magistrates shall be by Beans *. Pollux, lib. VIII. cap. 9. y Ex Athenao. a Ibidem. bfchines in Crefiphontem. Grat, apud Thucyd. lib. VI. Dinarchus in Ariftogitonem. d Nicia f Demofthenes 8 Ibidera. Efchines in Timarchum. Plutarchas Solone. Lucianus. It fhall be punishable with Death to pass two Suffrages for the fame Candidate: The Archons fhall be created by the People. No one fhall bear the fame Office twice, or enter on two feveral the fame Year b. All Magiftrates, that are elected by Suffrages, Surveyors of publick Works, and they, who have any Authority in the City upward of thirty Days, with thofe who prefide over the Courts of Judicature, fhall not enter on their refpective Offices, till they have undergone the accuftom'd Examination, and after the Expiration of thofe Offices, they fhall give an Account of the Discharge of their Truft before the Scribe, and Logifta, as other Magiftrates are oblig'd to do. This fhall be the manner: So much I receiv'd from the Publick, fo much I laid out, or in the Reverse ". Such as have not made up their Accounts, fhall expend none of their. Money in divine Ufes, nor make Wills; nor fhall they have License travel, bear another Office, or have the Honour of a Crown confer'd on them *. to It's Death for any one indebted to the publick Exchequer, to be invested with a publick Trust f. It's alfo Death to ufurp the Government. Let him be out-law'd, who fhall continue in his Magiftracy after the - Diffolution of democratical Government; whereupon, it fhall be lawful for any one to kill fuch a Perfon, and make Seifure of his Goods h, T A Plephifm. HIS Decree, was made by the Senate and Athenian State, the Tribe Eantis being Prytanès, Cleogenes Clerk, Boethus chief Prefident, and Demophantus its Ingroffer; the Date of this Pfephifm is from the Election of the Senate of five hundred, and thus it runs: If any one levels at the Ruin of the Commonwealth, or after its Subverfion bears any Office, let that Man be cenfur'd as an Enemy to the State, and dispatch'd out of the way; let all his Goods, faving the tenth Part to be confifcated to Minerva, be expos'd to Sale: He that kills him, with all his Affistants, shall be blameless herein, and free from the Guilt of his Death; all Athenians likewife in their feveral Tribes are oblig'd by Oath to attempt the killing of that Man, who fhall in the least seem to affect the Crimes here fet down', 'LL endeavour, with my own Hands, to kill that Man, who fhall diffolve the Athenian Republick, or after its Subverfion fhall bear any Office, and he fhall be reputed by me wholly free from Guilt, in refpect of the Gods or Demons, who fhall take away his Life, or en courage another fo to do; farther in the Distribution of his Goods, I'll pass my Vote, that the Slayer fhall have halfs and he, that in the Attempt fhall have the Misfortune to lose his own Life, fhall, with his Heirs, have due Refpect and Honour from me, as Harmodius and AriRogiton with their Pofterity *. All Oaths, that fhall be taken in Time of War, or any other Juncture, if inconfiftent with the Athenian Conftitution, fhall be null and void. No Office, impos'd by the People, fhall be refus'd by Oath before the Senate1. Whoever cafts fcurrilous Abuses on a Magistrate while officiating, fhall be fin'd". The Examination, and interrogatory Difquifition of the Archons. W T7HETHER they are Citizens by a lawful Lineage of Progenitors Anfw. What, Sir, d'ye mean my Father, N. or N.? Anfw. Sufficient, Sir; first of all thefe Coufins, then thefe Perfons whe haye Right to the fame Burying Place with us, these here of the fame Phratria, and thefe related to Apollo Patrius, and Jupiter Herceus; laftly, these Gentlemen of the fame Borough, who have repos'd the Truft and Management of Offices in me, and honour'd me with their, Suffrages. Queft. D'ye hear, Friend? Who is your Mother? Anfw. What mine, d'ye mean? N. or N.? Quest. What Kindred have you to fhew? Anfw. Thefe first, thefe fecond Coufins, and thofe of the fame Phra fria and Borough. Then the Cafe is to be put, Honour'd their Parents? Whether they have Fought for their Country? Poffeffion of an Eftate, and all their Limbs found? The Archon's Oath. LL be punctual in the Obfervance of the Laws, and for every De fault herein, I'll forfeit a Statue of Gold, of equal Proportion with my felf, to the Delphian Apollo". See as before, and in the following. An Archon that fhall be feen overcharg'd with Wine, fhall fuffer Death P. If any one is contumelioufly piquant, beats any Thefmotheta, or blasts his Reputation, a crown'd Arebon's, or any other's, whom the Lycurgus in Leocratem. ! Efchines de falfa legar. mafias pro milite... • Plutarchus Silone, Pollux, lib. VIII, &c. City City privileges with an Office, or confers any Dignity upon, let him be (AT) infamous 9. The Areopagite Senate, when Vacancies fall, fhall yearly be recruited out of the Archons. See Book I. Chap. xix. and in the following. The Areopagites fhall have Inspection into the Deportment, and Behaviour of the Athenians Let no Areopagite make a Comedy '. The Senate of Areopagus fhall give an Account of their Management before the Logifta ". Let a Erparnys have Children lawfully begotten, and enjoy an Estate within the Confines of Attica". See Book III. Chap. v. The Oath of the Στρατηγός. LL twice a Year make an Incurfion into the Megarenfian Territo ries *. Let fuch of the Erpanyol be arraign'd as fhall endamage the Fleet of their Allies ". No one fhall be created Syndic, or Aftynomus above once 2. See Book I. Chap. xv. The Quafors fhall be chofen by Suffrages of the People *. A Quæftorfhip muft not be kept above five Years . It's Death to go on an Embaffy without Commiffion from the Senate, or People. See Book I. Chap. xv. No one fhall be Secretary above once under the fame Magiftrate. Se Book L. Chap. xv. Laws refpecting Orators. O one under the Age of thirty Years shall speak an Oration in the L An Inspection into the Orators Lives. ET no one be a publick Orator, who hath ftruck his Parents, denied them Maintenance, or fhut them out of Doors; who have refus'd going into the Army in cafe of publick Neceffity, or thrown away his Shield; who hath committed Whoredom, or given Way to Effeminacy who hath run out his Father's Estate, or any Inheritance left him by a Friend; if, notwithstanding any of thefe Crimes, any one fhall dare to deliver a publick Oration, let thofe, who are commiffion'd, bring him to the Teft in open Court. Let an Orator have Children lawfully begotten, and let him be Måfer of an Estate within Attica's Borders. Demofthenes in Midiam. Plutarchus Solene. fIbidem. gloria Athenienfium "Efchines in Ctesiphontem. Ulpianus ad Androtianam. Plutarchus de Dinarchus in Demofthenem. *Plutarchus in Pericle. y Demofthenes περὶ τῶν ἐν χερρονήσω. Leptinem, & Procm. LXIV. Lycurgo rhetore. Demofthenes de falfa legat. d Lyfias in Nicomachum. Conf. Achines in Timarcha7776- * Dinarchus in Demosthenem. If an Orator, either before the Senate, or People, hath not pertinently and diftinctly handled the Thing propounded, or hath defcanted twice on the fame Subject, hath been piquantly cenforious, and hath abufively animadverted upon any one's Behaviour, hath fpoken of other Things befide thofe propounded by the Proedri, or hath encourag'd any one fo to do, or if he hath abus'd the Epistata after, the rifing of the Affembly, or Senate; fuch an one's Infolence' fhall be punish'd by the Protdri with a Mulet of fifty Drachms, the apexrops fhall have Intelligence of his Mif demeanors, and if his Penalty fhall feem too light for his Crimes, be fides his Fine, let him be hal'd to the next Convention of the Senate, or Affembly, where, if condemn'd by private Votes, the Proedti thall exact a Fine from him to be paid to the apάxrepes for his Sgevoμiu, or Breach of the Laws f. T Laws treating of Duties, and Offices. HE Archons fhall appoint in the Affembly by Lots a certain Num ber of Flute-players, to be at the xpo, or publick Dancings. No Stranger fhall join in a Dance with a Chorus; if he do, the Ch ragus fhall be fin'd a thousand Drachms h. Let it be lawful to inform against a Stranger to the Archon, before his Entrance into the Theatre to dance i. A Stranger if indicted by a Xognyos for dancing before the Archon, fhall be fin'd fifty Drachms; and a thousand, if he perfift after Prohibition * Thofe Dancers, who are (ar) infamous, are to be drove off the Stage'. Sixteen Men are to be chofe out of all the publick Companies, to con tribute equally towards the building a Man of War, which Service they are to engage in from twenty five Years of Age to forty ". m The Qualification for a Trierarch is, that he be worth ten Talents, cording to which Eftimation he is to be chofen: But if his Eftate is rated more, let him build Ships equivalent, yet at moft but three, with a Skiff; they, who are not worth so much, fhall be joyn'd together fo many of them, till their Estates make up the Sum ". The Trierarchs and Overfeers of the Navy fhall be commiffion'd to regifter their Names, who, being of the fame Zupp, are indebted to the Commonwealth for Ship-rigging, for which they fhall fue them. St Book F. Chap. xv. and in the following. He, that owes rigging, fhall either give it, or give Security P. All Trierarchs elect, fhall betake themfelves to the Ships they are con tituted over 9. All Trierarchs are to render an Account of their Administration '. There fhall be a yearly Appointment for the Exchange of Offices, where he, that fhall be defign'd a Aerapyès, fhall be exempted from ferving, if he can produce any vacant Perfon richer than himself, and Afchines in Timarchum. 8 Demofthenes in Midian. in Energum & Mufibulum. Cufiphontem Ibidem Ibidem ibique Ulpiansš |