The final selection of the Interpreters, the choice of an heir for a vacant lot, the punishment for removing a deposit, are also to be determined by it.

Plato is not disposed to encourage amateur attempts to revive religion in states.

For, as he says in the Laws, 'To institute religious rites is the work of a great intelligence.' Though the council is framed on the model of the Athenian Boule, the law courts of Plato do not equally conform to the pattern of the Athenian dicasteries.

Plato thinks that the judges should speak and ask questions:--this is not possible if they are numerous; he would, therefore, have a few judges only, but good ones.

He is nevertheless aware that both in public and private suits there must be a popular element.