citizens, were formerly registered upon whitened tablets, and the
names were appended of the Archon in whose year they were enrolled, and
of the Eponymus who had been in course in the preceding year; at the
present day they are written on a bronze pillar, which stands in front
of the Council-chamber, near the Eponymi of the tribes. Then the Forty
take the last of the Eponymi of the years of service, and assign the
arbitrations to the persons belonging to that year, casting lots to
determine which arbitrations each shall undertake; and every one is
compelled to carry through the arbitrations which the lot assigns to
him. The law enacts that any one who does not serve as Arbitrator when
he has arrived at the necessary age shall lose his civil rights, unless
he happens to be holding some other office during that year, or to be
out of the country. These are the only persons who escape the duty. Any
one who suffers injustice at the hands of the Arbitrator may appeal to
the whole board of Arbitrators, and if they find the magistrate guilty,
the law enacts that he shall lose his civil rights. The persons thus
condemned have, however, in their turn an appeal. The Eponymi are also
used in reference to military expeditions; when the men of military age
are despatched on service, a notice is put up stating that the men from
such-and-such an Archon and Eponymus to such-and-such another Archon
and Eponymus are to go on the expedition.

Part 54

The following magistrates also are elected by lot: Five Commissioners
of Roads (Hodopoei), who, with an assigned body of public slaves, are
required to keep the roads in order: and ten Auditors, with ten
assistants, to whom all persons who have held any office must give in
their accounts. These are the only officers who audit the accounts of
those who are subject to examination, and who bring them up for
examination before the law-courts. If they detect any magistrate in
embezzlement, the jury condemn him for theft, and he is obliged to
repay tenfold the sum he is declared to have misappropriated. If they
charge a magistrate with accepting bribes and the jury convict him,
they fine him for corruption, and this sum too is repaid tenfold. Or if
they convict him of unfair dealing, he is fined on that charge, and the
sum assessed is paid without increase, if payment is made before the
ninth prytany, but otherwise it is doubled. A tenfold fine is not
doubled.

The Clerk of the prytany, as