[118] Herodotus V. 92. Diodorus Siculus VII. fragment 9. Diodorus wrote about 20-10 B.C.
[119] Aristotle, Politics V. 5. 9, Bekker. Welldon, Translation, p. 357.
[120] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, ch. 8.
[121] Plutarch, Solon, ch. 19, Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, ch. 3.
[122] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, ch. 3, calls them recorders of laws or customs for judgement. The chapter may be spurious, but the assertion is probable.
[123] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 4.
[124] Mr R. Macan in Journ. of Hellenic Studies, April 1891, p. 27 notices the silence of Plutarch.
[125] The description of Solon's constitution is taken from Aristotle's Constitution of Athens, ch. 5-13: except the statement that the members of the council of four hundred were selected by Solon. This is from Plutarch, Solon, ch. 19.
[126] Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 13.
[127] Aristotle, Politics V. 12. 13. Welldon, p. 405.