These offices, then, are elected by lot and have authority over all the matters stated. As to the officials designated the Nine Archons, the mode of their appointment that was originally in force has been stated before1; but now the six Lawgivers and their clerk are elected by lot, and also the Archon,2 King and War-lord, from each tribe in turn.
1 Aristot. Ath. Pol. 3, Aristot. Ath. Pol. 8, Aristot. Ath. Pol. 22, Aristot. Ath. Pol. 26.
2 i.e. the Archon Eponymus, see Aristot. Ath. Pol. 54.4 n.