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They also appoint the Eleven, officers chosen by lot to superintend the persons in the prison, and to punish with death people arrested as thieves and kidnappers and footpads that confess their guilt, but if they deny the charge to bring them before the Jury-court, and if they are acquitted discharge them, but if not then to execute them; and to bring before the Jury-court lists of farms and houses declared to be public property and to hand over to the Vendors1 those that it is decided to confiscate; and to bring in informations—for these too are brought in by the Eleven, though the Legislators also bring in some informations.
1 See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 47.2.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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