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These are the functions of the Nine Archons. They also elect by lot ten men as Stewards of the Games, one from each tribe, who when passed as qualified hold office for four years, and administer the procession of the Panathenaic Festival, and the contest in music, the gymnastic contest and the horse-race, and have the Robe1 made, and in conjunction with the Council have the vases2 made, and assign the olive-oil to the competitors.
1 See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 49.3 n.
2 In athletic contests the prize was a vase of oil and a garland of foliage from the sacred olive-trees.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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