[168] The details about the five hundred are from Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 43. An inscription of the date 410-409 B.C. printed in Clinton, Fasti Hellenici (vol. II. p. 345), shows how important the prytaneis then were.
[169] Thucydides II. 65.
[170] Smith, Dictionary of Antiquities, article Strategus.
[171] Smith, Dictionary of Antiquities, article Archon.
[172] Demosthenes, Meidias p. 585, asks: "What is it that gives power and authority to any body of jurors sitting in judgement, whether they be two hundred or a thousand or any number you will?"
[173] The eagerness of the citizens to act as dicasts is ridiculed all through the play of the Wasps, brought out in 422 B.C.
[174] Thucydides I. 31 and 44.
[175] Thucydides VI. 8.
[176] Thucydides IV. 118.
[177] Thucydides III. 2 and 36-49.