There are ten Commissioners for Repairs of Temples, elected by lot, who
receive a sum of thirty minas from the Receivers-General, and therewith
carry out the most necessary repairs in the temples.
There are also ten City Commissioners (Astynomi), of whom five hold
office in Piraeus and five in the city. Their duty is to see that
female flute- and harp- and lute-players are not hired at more than two
drachmas, and if more than one person is anxious to hire the same girl,
they cast lots and hire her out to the person to whom the lot falls.
They also provide that no collector of sewage shall shoot any of his
sewage within ten stradia of the walls; they prevent people from
blocking up the streets by building, or stretching barriers across
them, or making drain-pipes in mid-air with a discharge into the
street, or having doors which open outwards; they also remove the
corpses of those who die in the streets, for which purpose they have a
body of state slaves assigned to them.