The Forty
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the Forty
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
A board of forty magistrates (successors to the Thirty) who try minor suits and refer larger ones to arbitration and the courts.
Formerly they were thirty and went round the demes to try cases, but after the oligarchy of the Thirty they became forty.
The Forty, taking the last of the eponymous heroes, distribute the arbitrations among them and allot which each shall arbitrate;
But if either of the litigants appeals to the law-court, they place the testimonies and the challenges and the laws in jars—separately those of the prosecutor, separately those of the defendant—and sealing these up, and attaching the arbitrator's decision written on a tablet, they hand them over to the four who try cases for the defendant's tribe.
Against Pantaenetus
The magistrate body said to hear assault, battery, and violent wrongs.
Assault and battery and crimes of violence come before the Forty;
Antidosis
Athenian officials associated with listing private offenders and unjust complainants.
and private offenders and authors of unjust complaints, by the Forty.