n to be brought, and every one of the councillors to draw a lot. By
the lots as they were drawn,

The Commonwealth of Fell to

Israel...... Phosphorus de Auge
Athens..... Navarchus de Paralo
Lacedaemon..... Laco de Scytale
Carthage.. Mago de Syrtibus
The Achaeans, AEtolians, and Lycians....Aratus de Isthmo
The Switz Alpester de Fulmine
Holland and the United Provinces Glaucus de Ulna
Rome...... Dolabella de Enyo
Venice..... Lynceus de Stella

These contained in them all those excellencies whereof a commonwealth
is capable; so that to have added more had been to no purpose. Upon
time given to the councillors, by their own studies and those of their
friends, to prepare themselves, they were opened in the order, and by
the persons mentioned at the Council of legislators, and afterward by
order of the same were repeated at the council of the prytans to the
people; for in drawing of the lots, there were about a dozen of them
inscribed with the letter P, whereby the councillors that drew them
became prytans.

The prytans were a committee or council sitting in the great hall of
Pantheon, to whom it was lawful for any man to offer anything in order
to the fabric of the commonwealth; for which cause, that they might not
be oppressed by the throng, there was a rail about the table where they
sat, and on each side of the same a pulpit; that on the right hand for
any man that would propose anything, and that on the left for any
other that would oppose him. And all parties (being indemnified by
proclamation of the Archon) were invited to dispute their own interests,
or propose whatever they thought fit (in order to the future government)
to the council of the prytans, who, having a guard of about two or three
hundred men, lest the heat of dispute might break the peace, had
the right of moderators, and were to report from time to time such
propositions or occurrences as they thought fit, to the Council of
legislators sitting more privately in the palace called Alma.

This was that which made the people (who were neither safely to
be admitted, nor conveniently to be excluded in the framing of the
commonwealth) verily believe, when it came forth, that it was no other
t