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rights of each place fhould be no lefs ;) and if any o- 
ther lands remained, it fhould be in the arbitrium ‘of 
the afsembly, for the conveniency of which, and of 
the common of Arcadia, we left all the Parrhasian 
grove and the territory and rights all around it, for the 
space of half a stadium; and, finally, that the same 
extraction and pofsefsion fhould be put in practice, 
in regard to those fhepherds, who, from time to time, 
might happen to come here.and be received among 
the Arcadians. We thus far establifhed, and thus far 
itwas approved by the full afsembly; in consequence 
of which, the above mentioned urn being brought and 
prepared ] Alphesiboeus, to whom, as custos, this bu- 
sinefs appertained, extracted the pofsefsions for each, 
of the afsembled fhepherds, who were E/pinus, A- 
Lexis, Uranius, Palemon, Alphesiboeus, Opicus, Tirsts, 
Idalgus, Mouatanus, Siringus, Dametas, Mortillus, 
Carinus, Silvius ; and Chance provided for them 
in the manner that is marked in the catalogue of ad- 
mifsions on the same day. We all entered in an ob- 
ligation never to make any mortgage on the pofsefsi« 
ons allotted to us, nor to transmit them as an inheri- 
tance to our posterity, which fhould be obliged to 
ask them of our community, and obtain from it the. 
investiture of it, exactly in the same manner as those 
who are to be received for the future; as that land, 
or right, which fellto our lot, is, at our death, to de- 
volve freely to the community, and to be returned 
‘into the Urn of Chance, to the benefit of those who 
might be received in times to come; who, as it was 
decreed, are to be likewise subjected to the same ob» 
ligation.” 
