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When all the courts are full, two ballot-boxes are placed in the first of the courts, and copper dice with the colors of the courts painted on them, and other dice with the names of the offices written on them. And two of the Lawgivers are chosen by lot, and throw the two sets of dice in separately, one throwing in the colored dice into one ballot-box and the other the names of the offices into the other. And to whichever of the offices the lot falls first, it is proclaimed by the herald that this will use the first court allotted. . . .1
1 Of chapters 66.2-68.2 (MS. pp. 33-4) only fragments remain, variously put togewther and supplemented by editors.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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