The Commonwealth of Fell to

Israel...... Phosphorus de Auge
Athens..... Navarchus de Paralo
Lacedaemon..... Laco de Scytale
Carthage.. Mago de Syrtibus
The Achaeans, AEtolians, and Lycians....Aratus de Isthmo
The Switz Alpester de Fulmine
Holland and the United Provinces Glaucus de Ulna
Rome...... Dolabella de Enyo
Venice..... Lynceus de Stella

These contained in them all those excellencies whereof a
commonwealth is capable; so that to have added more had been to
no purpose. Upon time given to the councillors, by their own
studies and those of their friends, to prepare themselves, they
were opened in the order, and by the persons mentioned at the
Council of legislators, and afterward by order of the same were
repeated at the council of the prytans to the people; for in
drawing of the lots, there were about a dozen of them inscribed
with the letter P, whereby the councillors that drew them became
prytans.

The prytans were a committee or council sitting in the great
hall of Pantheon, to whom it was lawful for any man to offer
anything in order to the fabric of the commonwealth; for which
cause, that they might not be oppressed by the throng, there was
a rail about the table where they sat, and on each side of the
same a pulpit; that on the right hand for any man that would
propose anything, and that on the left for any other that would