Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: just the same thing. He says, Arjfiw fj.ev yap eSaa roaov (/.) List of Solon's Constitutional enactments. Now if we ask for the details of Solon's enactments affecting the constitution, we find some which are beyond a doubt, but some also whose real nature and significance admit of different views. It is certain that Solon made the offices of government, which had hitherto been confined to the Eupatridse, accessible to all citizens of the three first property-classes, without distinction of rank. But he retained some of the more important, especially that of Archon, (to which we may with confidence add those of Prytaneis of the Naukrars, in agreement with Mr. Grote, ) for Pentakosiomedimni exclusively. Further, even without express evidence, we may confidently assume with Mr. Grote, that the liturgic obligations were imposed on the rich only, though we know no details of their regulation. They consist in the duty of equipping ships, which fell upon the Naukrars, and in anything there might be at that time in the way of Choregia, Gymnasiarchy, or Hestiasis. Then it is certain that military service as horsemen, or hoplites, was the duty of the three upper classes only, while the Thetes served merely as light-armed. Again, Solon remodelled the Areopagus. He did so by forming it of ex-archons, whose office had been irreproachably discharged, and entrusting to it besides the jurisdiction in murder cases, and over incendiary and similar crimes, a general supervision of the execution of the laws, and of public discipline. It is a fact, too, that he instituted the annual council of four hundred persons. To this he committed, besides certain branches of administration, the preliminary discussion of all matters to be brought before the public assembly; so that no proposal could be b..