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Giisert I. 252-8.) The Five Hundred. | (Grunert II, 297-8.
Council, and only under certain specified conditions to consent to
imprison an Athenian.!

The Bouleutai wore wreaths as their emblem of office; their
privileges were freedom from military service during their year
of office, and a seat of honour in the theatre; they Honours and
received as salary one drachma per day, at the end of Smoluments.
the fourth century five obols.2 It was customary for the people
to vote crowns of honour to the Council at the end of its year of
office, if its administration had been satisfactory.®

The Council as a whole had a certain disciplinary power over
its members : for instance, it could provisionally expel , =
a member by éxpvAAodopia, which was either confirmed aa Account
or reversed by a subsequent formal and judicial trial
before the Council. At the end of its year of office the Council


1 Their entrance on office in the middle of the month Skirophorion seems
to follow from Arist. 82,1. Eloirjpa at the Council’s accession to office,
Thue. 8, 70; Dem. 19, 190; 21,114. The Bovdevrixds Spxos dated from soon
after Cleisthenes’ time. Arist. 22,2: xpdrov uev ody Free wréuxry pera Tabrny
Thy xatdoracw ép ‘Epyoxpéovros Apxovros ry BovAy Tots wevraxoclas Tov SpKov
érojoay, dv Exc xal viv duvtovow. Particulars of the BovAevrixds Epcos: card
rovs vouous Bovretoew: Ken., Mem., 1.1.18, rovs Dé\wvos vinous €uredwoew: Plut.,
Sol., 25, ra. BéAriora Bovredoew ry Shup Tdv ’AOnvalwy : (Dem.) 59, 4. Lys. 81, 1,
dropalvey, ef ris riva olde Trav Aaydvrwv dverirhdecov byra Bovrevew: Lys. 81, 2.
