Next we have to speak of the elections of the wardens of the agora and of the city.  The wardens of the city shall be three in number, and they shall have the care of the streets, roads, buildings, and also of the water-supply.  They shall be chosen out of the highest class, and when the number of candidates has been reduced to six who have the greatest number of votes, three out of the six shall be taken by lot, and, after a scrutiny, shall be admitted to their office.  The wardens of the agora shall be five in number—­ten are to be first elected, and every one shall vote for all the vacant places; the ten shall be afterwards reduced to five by lot, as in the former election.  The first and second class shall be compelled to go to the assembly, but not the third and fourth, unless they are specially summoned.  The wardens of the agora shall have the care of the temples and fountains which are in the agora, and shall punish those who injure them by stripes and bonds, if they be slaves or strangers; and by fines, if they be citizens.  And the wardens of the city shall have a similar power of inflicting punishment and fines in their own department.

In the next place, there must be directors of music and gymnastic; one class of them superintending gymnasia and schools, and the attendance and lodging of the boys and girls—­the other having to do with contests of music and gymnastic.  In musical contests there shall be one kind of judges of solo singing or playing, who will judge of rhapsodists, flute-players, harp-players and the like, and another of choruses.  There shall be choruses of men and boys and maidens—­one director will be enough to introduce them all, and he should not be less than forty years of age; secondly, of solos also there shall be one director, aged not less than thirty years; he will introduce the competitors and give judgment upon them.  The director of the choruses is to be elected in an assembly at which all who take an interest in music are compelled to attend, and no one else.  Candidates must only be proposed for their fitness, and opposed on the ground of unfitness.  Ten are to be elected by vote, and the one of these on whom the lot falls shall be director for a year.  Next shall be elected out of the second and third classes the judges of gymnastic contests, who are to be three in number, and are to be tested, after being chosen by lot out of twenty who have been elected by the three highest classes—­these being compelled to attend at the election.

One minister remains, who will have the general superintendence of education.  He must be not less than fifty years old, and be himself the father of children born in wedlock.  His office must be regarded by all as the highest in the state.  For the right growth of the first shoot in plants and animals is the chief cause of matured perfection.  Man is supposed to be a tame animal, but he becomes either the gentlest or the fiercest of creatures, accordingly as he is well or ill educated.  Wherefore he who is elected to preside over education should be the best man possible.  He shall hold office for five years, and shall be elected out of the guardians of the law, by the votes of the other magistrates with the exception of the senate and prytanes; and the election shall be held by ballot in the temple of Apollo.