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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
LAW OF ELIS, 6TH CENTURY bce (TRANS. DILLON AND GARLAND 1994: 307, NO. 10.29, SLIGHTLY MODIFIED)
[the first tablet is lost]
If he commits fornication [?] in the sacred precinct, he shall pay the penalty by sacrificing an ox and by total purification, and the thearos [official] the same. If anyone gives judgement contrary to what is written, the judgement shall be invalid, and the rhêtra of the People shall be final in judging. Anything of what is written may be amended if it seems better with regard to the God [Zeus], by withdrawing or adding with [the approval of] the whole Council of 500 and the People in full assembly. Changes may be made three times, adding or withdrawing.
FROM THE ‘PERSIAN DEBATE’ IN HERODOTUS (3.80–2)
The speech of ‘Otanes’ (3.80):
To me it seems best that no single one of us should henceforth be ruler, for that is neither pleasant nor profitable. […] [H]ow should the rule of one alone be a well-ordered thing, given that the monarch may do as he desires without rendering any account for his acts? Even the best of all men, were he to be placed in this position, would change from his accustomed outlook. For insolence is engendered in him by the good things that he possesses and envy is implanted in man from the beginning; and, having these two things, he has all vice.
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