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compulsory to go on citizens of the first and second class, and they shall pay a
fine of ten drachmae if they be found not answering to their names at the
assembly. the third and fourth class shall be under no compulsion, and shall
be let off without a fine, unless the magistrates have commanded all to be
present, in consequence of some urgent necessity. The wardens of the agora
shall observe the order appointed by law for the agora, and shall have the
charge of the temples and fountains which are in the agora; and they shall see
that no one injures anything, and punish him who does, with stripes and
bonds, if he be a slave or stranger; but if he be a citizen who misbehaves in
this way, they shall have the power themselves of inflicting a fine upon him to
the amount of a hundred drachmae, or with the consent of the wardens of the
city up to double that amount. And let the wardens of the city have a similar
power of imposing punishments and fines in their own department; and let
them impose fines by their own department; and let them impose fines by
their own authority, up to a mina, or up to two minae with the consent of the
wardens of the agora.
In the next place, it will be proper to appoint directors of music and
gymnastic, two kinds of each—of the one kind the business will be education,
of the other, the superintendence of contests. In speaking of education, the
law means to speak of those who have the care of order and instruction in
gymnasia and schools, and of the going to school, and of school buildings for
boys and girls; and in speaking of contests, the law refers to the judges of
gymnastics and of music; these again are divided into two classes, the one
having to do with music, the other with gymnastics; and the same who judge
of the gymnastic contests of men, shall judge of horses; but in music there
shall be one set of judges of solo singing, and of imitation—I mean of
rhapsodists, players on the harp, the flute and the like, and another who shall
judge of choral song. First of all, we must choose directors for the choruses of
boys, and men, and maidens, whom they shall follow in the amusement of the
dance, and for our other musical arrangements; —one director will be enough
for the choruses, and he should be not less than forty years of age. One
director will also be enough to introduce the solo singers, and to give
judgment on the competitors, and he ought not to be less than thirty years of
age. The director and manager of the choruses shall be elected after the
following manner:—Let any persons who commonly take an interest in such
matters go to the meeting, and be fined if they do not go (the guardians of the
law shall judge of their fault), but those who have no interest shall not be
compelled. The elector shall propose as director some one who understands
music, and he in the scrutiny may be challenged on the one part by those who
say he has no skill, and defended on the other hand by those who say that he
has. Ten are to be elected by vote, and he of the ten who is chosen by lot shall
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 1612
- Schlagwörter
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International