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In procefs of time, it was imagined, that another clafs of 
officers fhould be added to the former, whofe province it fhould 
be to watch over the civil interefts of the confederacy. Thefe 
two claffes of fuperintendents gradually coalefced into one, and 
both united in difcharging the facred and civil fun@tions an- 
nexed to their office. Each of the confederated ftates fent two 
deputies, without any regard to its extent or populoufnefs. 
The one was denominated Ilegovuevoy, Hierumenon, and the other 
Tluawyogas, Pylagoras. The former was chofen by lot, and his 
bufinefs feems to have been more immediately to infpe@ and 
fuperintend matters relating to religion, fuch as facrifices, au- 
guries, rites, ceremonies, &c. Thefe officers I take to ‘have 
been a part of the original conftitution. The latter was elect- 
ed by a plurality of voices, and his province feems to have 
been originally confined to the civil department. Both thefe 
had an equal right to deliberate upon, and vote in all matters 
that came before the aflembly. 
Tuese ftated times of aflembling were twice in the year, 
once in fpring, and once in autumn. Their {pring meeting 
was called Exgivov ruAwsoy, their autumnal Merwragwov. ‘The rea- 
fon of this appellation was, according to the writers of Greece, 
owing to their having been originally inftituted at Py/e, after- 
wards called Thermopyle. The duration of their fitting was 
not limited, but extended in proportion to the multiplicity, 
magnitude, or difficulty of the bufinefs which came before 
them. Before they entered on bufinefs, they jointly facrificed 
an ox, cut into fmall pieces, which was a facramental fymbol 
of their amity and concord. ‘Though their ordinary place of 
meeting was at Delphi, they fometimes adjourned to Thermo- 
pyle. But this only happened when that city was threatened 
with a hoftile invafion, or when the exigencies of the commu- 
nities made the latter a more commodious ftation. When they 
aflembled at Thermopylz, they held their feflions in the temple 
of Ceres, near the mouth of the river Afopus. The fifth epo- 
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