On the third day, candidates shall be selected from the third class; but the compulsion to vote shall only extend to the voters of the first three classes.

On the fourth day, members of the council shall be selected from the fourth class; they shall be selected by all, but the compulsion to vote shall only extend to the second class, who, if they do not vote, shall pay a fine of triple the amount which was exacted at first, and to the first class, who shall pay a quadruple fine.

On the fifth day, the names shall be exhibited, and out of them shall be chosen by all the citizens 180 of each class: these are severally to be reduced by lot to ninety, and 90 x 4 will form the council for the year.
The mode of election which has been described is a mean between monarchy and democracy, and such a mean should ever be observed in the state.
For servants and masters cannot be friends, and, although equality makes friendship, we must remember that there are two sorts of equality.

One of them is the rule of number and measure; but there is also a higher equality, which is the judgment of Zeus.

Of this he grants but little to mortal men; yet that little is the source of the greatest good to cities and individuals.