As we cannot then derive any assistance from the legends in our attempt to describe the evolution of the Attic murder-courts, we are compelled to begin, so to speak, at the other end, and by arguing from survivals, to reconstruct the most probable mode of evolution from an analysis of historical facts. We will begin with the synoptic account of Pollux[29] which is as follows: (1) _The Areopagus_ ‘judged (charges of) wilful murder and wounding with intent to kill, arson and the administering of drugs, if a person gives them with intent to kill.’ This account is identical in fact with that of Dracon’s law, as Demosthenes[30] quotes it. It is therefore probably based upon the Demosthenic passage or upon an archaic inscription. The clause φόνου καὶ τραύματος ἐκ προνοίας καὶ πυρκαϊᾶς καὶ φαρμάκων occurs both in Pollux and in Demosthenes.[31] Pollux adds that the nine archons were added to the _Areopagites_, and that they held their trials in the open air. (2) _The Palladium_: ‘in this court are heard charges of involuntary slaying.’ Pausanias[32] corrects this account, though he is not himself very precise, when he says: ‘Murder-cases are taken in this court ... in which are also tried cases of manslaughter.’ Further details we shall presently adduce from Aristotle and from Demosthenes; we shall see[33] that this court tried no murder-cases except those which occurred between strangers. (3) _The Delphinium_: the trials in this court are modelled, Pollux suggests, on that of Theseus and the Pallantidae ‘whom he admitted that he slew but asserted that he had justly slain.’ (4) _The Prytaneum_ ‘judges about those who have slain, if they are unknown (ἀφανεῖς), and about inanimate objects which have fallen upon and slain (persons). The Tribe-Kings, whose duty it is to cast the fallen object over the (civic) boundaries, preside over this court.’ (5) The Court at _Phreatto_: ‘in this court anyone was tried who, being an exile for involuntary homicide, becomes liable to a second charge of wilful murder. The Court was by the sea; the accused had to make his defence from the ship, without touching the land....’