[1] This body was composed of life-members, the archons passing into it
annually at the conclusion of their term of office. A certain religious
solemnity attached to it, and it was generally respected as a
public-spirited and high-minded body.
[2] [Greek: p_os: ti;].
[3] Hesiod, _Works and Days_, 761.
[4] Euripides, _Phoenix_ fragment.
[5] [Greek: adeia, aischuv_e.].