A translator of Aristophanes, Mr B. B. Rogers, records his opinion "that it would be difficult to devise a judicial system less adapted for the due administration of justice" (Preface to _Wasps_, xxxv. f.), while a translator of Demosthenes, Mr C. R. Kennedy, observes that the Athenian jurors "were persons of no legal education or learning; taken at haphazard from the whole body of citizens, and mostly belonging to the lowest and poorest class. On the other hand, the Athenians were naturally the quickest and cleverest people in the world. Their wits were sharpened by the habit ... of taking an active part in important debates, and hearing the most splendid orators. There was so much litigation at Athens that they were constantly either engaged as jurors, or present as spectators in courts of law" (_Private Orations_, p. 361). AUTHORITIES.--1. Greek Law. B. W. Leist, _Graco-italische Rechtsgeschichte_ (Jena, 1884); L. Mitteis, _Reichsrecht und Volksrecht in den ostlichen Provinzen des romischen Kaiserreichs, mit Beitragen zur Kenntnis des griechischen Rechts_ (Leipzig, 1891); J. H. Lipsius, _Von der Bedeutung des griechischen Rechts_ (Leipzig, 1893); G. Gilbert, "Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des ... griechischen Rechtes" in _Jahrb. fur kl. Philologie_ (Leipzig, 1896); H. J. Hitzig, _Die Bedeutung des altgriechischen Rechtes fur die vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft_ (Stuttgart, 1906); R. Hirzel, _Themis, Dike und Verwandtes_ (Leipzig, 1907); J. J. Thonissen, _Le Droit criminel de la Grece legendaire_, followed by _Le Droit penal de la republique athenienne_ (Brussels, 1875).