Ἄρχων Ἄρχοντες

[There are] nine of them:¹ six thesmothetes,² archon [eponymous], king, polemarch.³ And before the laws of Solon they were not allowed to sit in judgment together; instead, the king sat by what was called the Herdsman's House [Boukoleion], which was near to the Prytaneion; the polemarch [sat] in the Lyceum;⁴ the archon at the [statues of the] Eponymoi, and the thesmothetes at the Thesmothesion. They were empowered to pronounce judgment on cases on their own authority. But after Solon they had no other function besides interrogating the litigants.⁵