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lot, five for Piraeus, and five for the city; but now there are twenty for the city
and fifteen for Piraeus. Their duties are, first, to see that the unprepared corn
in the market is offered for sale at reasonable prices, and secondly, to see that
the millers sell barley meal at a price proportionate to that of barley, and that
the bakers sell their loaves at a price proportionate to that of wheat, and of
such weight as the Commissioners may appoint; for the law requires them to
fix the standard weight.
There are ten Superintendents of the Mart, elected by lot, whose duty is to
superintend the Mart, and to compel merchants to bring up into the city two-
thirds of the corn which is brought by sea to the Corn Mart.
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The Eleven also are appointed by lot to take care of the prisoners in the
state gaol. Thieves, kidnappers, and pickpockets are brought to them, and if
they plead guilty they are executed, but if they deny the charge the Eleven
bring the case before the law-courts; if the prisoners are acquitted, they
release them, but if not, they then execute them. They also bring up before the
law-courts the list of farms and houses claimed as state-property; and if it is
decided that they are so, they deliver them to the Commissioners for Public
Contracts. The Eleven also bring up informations laid against magistrates
alleged to be disqualified; this function comes within their province, but some
such cases are brought up by the Thesmothetae.
There are also five Introducers of Cases (Eisagogeis), elected by lot, one
for each pair of tribes, who bring up the ‘monthly’ cases to the law-courts.
‘Monthly’ cases are these: refusal to pay up a dowry where a party is bound to
do so, refusal to pay interest on money borrowed at 12 per cent., or where a
man desirous of setting up business in the market has borrowed from another
man capital to start with; also cases of slander, cases arising out of friendly
loans or partnerships, and cases concerned with slaves, cattle, and the office
of trierarch, or with banks. These are brought up as ‘monthly’ cases and are
introduced by these officers; but the Receivers-General perform the same
function in cases for or against the farmers of taxes. Those in which the sum
concerned is not more than ten drachmas they can decide summarily, but all
above that amount they bring into the law-courts as ‘monthly’ cases.
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The Forty are also elected by lot, four from each tribe, before whom suitors
bring all other cases. Formerly they were thirty in number, and they went on
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Table of contents
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156