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145 At the same time they appointed to the magistracies those who had been selected beforehand by the members of their respective tribesAristotle (Aristot. Ath. Pol. 8) states that Solon enacted that the election to the offices should be by lot from candidates selected by each of the tribes. For example, each tribe selected then candidates for the nine archonships, and among these the lot was cast. Cf. Isoc. 7.22. and townships,The numerous “demes” into which Attica was divided. having made of the offices, not prizes to fight for or to tempt ambition,See Isoc. 7.24-25 and notes. but responsibilities much more comparable to the liturgies,See Introduction to the Antidosis. which are burdensome to those to whom they are assigned, although conferring upon them a kind of distinction. For the men who had been elected to office were required to neglect their own possessions and at the same time to abstain no less from the gratuities which are wont to be given to the offices than from the treasures of the gods. (Who under the present dispensation would submit to such restrictions?)

146 Furthermore, those who proved conscientious in the performance of these duties, were moderately praised and then assigned to another similar responsibility, whereas those who were guilty of the slightest dereliction were involved in the deepest disgrace and the severest punishment. So that no one of the citizens felt about the offices as they now do, but they then sought to escape from them much more than they now seek to obtain them,

147 and all men were agreed that no truer democracy could be found, nor one more stable or more beneficial to the multitude, than that which gave to the people at the same time exemption from such cares and sovereign power to fill the offices and bring to justice those who offended in themSee Isoc. 7.27 and note.—exactly the position which is enjoyed also by the most fortunate among despots.

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