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[2] 'The Council to consist of members over thirty years of age holding office for a year and drawing no pay; these members to include the Generals, the Nine Archons, the Sacred Remembrancer,1 the Company-commanders,2 Officers of the Horse,3 Officers of Tribes4 and officers in command of the Guards,5 the Treasurers of the Sacred Funds of the Goddess6 and the ten Treasurers of the other gods, the Greek Treasurers,7 and twenty Treasurers of all the secular funds as well, who shall manage them,8 and Sacrificial Officers and Superintendents, ten of each; and the Council to elect all of these from a larger preliminary list of candidates proposed by it from its members at the time, but all other offices to be elected by lot and not from the Council; and the Greek Treasurers9 that are to manage the funds not to be members of the Council.
1 The secretary or registrar who with the actual representative, the Pylagoras, was sent by Athens, as by the other members, to the Amphictyonic Council.
2 See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 61.3.
3 See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 4.
4 See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 5.
5 See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 24.3.
6 Athena.
7 This contradicts the end of the section, and the text seems to be corrupt.
8 This clause seems to be interpolated from below.
9 The managers of the funds paid as tribute by the Confederacy of Delos.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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