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city, and a selection from the candidates proposed shall be made by those who
are or have been of the age for military service. And if one who is not
proposed is thought by somebody to be better than one who is, let him name
whom he prefers in the place of whom, and make oath that he is better, and
propose him; and whichever of them is approved by vote shall be admitted to
the final selection; and the three who have the greatest number of votes shall
be appointed generals, and superintendents of military affairs, after previously
undergoing a scrutiny, like the guardians of the law. And let the generals thus
elected propose twelve brigadiers, one for each tribe; and there shall be a right
of counterproposal as in the case of the generals, and the voting and decision
shall take place in the same way. Until the prytanes and council are elected,
the guardians of the law shall convene the assembly in some holy spot which
is suitable to the purpose, placing the hoplites by themselves, and the cavalry
by themselves, and in a third division all the rest of the army. All are to vote
for the generals [and for the colonels of horse], but the brigadiers are to be
voted for only by those who carry shields [i.e. the hoplites]. Let the body of
cavalry choose phylarchs for the generals; but captains of light troops, or
archers, or any other division of the army, shall be appointed by the generals
for themselves. There only remains the appointment of officers of cavalry:
these shall be proposed by the same persons who proposed the generals, and
the election and the counter–proposal of other candidates shall be arranged in
the same way as in the case of the generals, and let the cavalry vote and the
infantry look on at the election; the two who have the greatest number of
votes shall be the leaders of all the horse. Disputes about the voting may be
raised once or twice; but if the dispute be raised a third time, the officers who
preside at the several elections shall decide.
The council shall consist of 30 x 12 members—360 will be a convenient
number for sub–division. If we divide the whole number into four parts of
ninety each, we get ninety counsellors for each class. First, all the citizens
shall select candidates from the first class; they shall be compelled to vote,
and, if they do not, shall be duly fined. When the candidates have been
selected, some one shall mark them down; this shall be the business of the
first day. And on the following day, candidates shall be selected from the
second class in the same manner and under the same conditions as on the
previous day; and on the third day a selection shall be made from the third
class, at which every one may, if he likes, vote, and the three first classes shall
be compelled to vote; but the fourth and lowest class shall be under no
compulsion, and any member of this class who does not vote shall not be
punished. On the fourth day candidates shall be selected from the fourth and
smallest class; they shall be selected by all, but he who is of the fourth class
shall suffer no penalty, nor he who is of the third, if he be not willing to vote;
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
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- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 1612
- Schlagwörter
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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